On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:38:58 +0000, Someoneelse <li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk> wrote: > marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> Lets face it. Everyone else manages this (tomtom, google, garmin, ....) > > I'm not sure that "everyone else" does make too good a job of it. Google > has quite a few village placenames in the wrong place near me > (Derbyshire, UK).
Interesting. They seem to be very accurate whenever I use them. Maybe its different for other maps. > The free satnav on my Blackberry is OK with UK > postcodes but struggles with smaller placenames and "street or feature > in placename". You said "free satnav"? Does it use a commercial map? I was comparing us with established commercial applications that use the established $$$-maps. What I like in Map&Guide or tomtom for example is typing in a city and getting all streets, typing in a house-number and getting only the results that have this house-number in the street. This works like a charm even with the smallest villages without presenting me streets from the next village. (When setting your targets, why settle for lower quality then to be >better< then the ones you like to replace.) Marcus _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
