Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On Tue, 29 May 2012 13:23:25 +0100, Tom Morris wrote:
On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikim...@inbox.org wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world,
whereas
OSM, for the most part, is not.
Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's
Oddly, I checked a family home in Missouri the other day.
On Google maps, it's set about 1 mile from where it should be... and on the
wrong side of the Missouri river. It shows roads where there are none, and
is thoroughly unusable. UPS etc don't deliver to the house because it's not
on their
I'm glad to see that Navigation Popups works nicely with IPv6.
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OSM is great. Here in Addis Ababa, street names are not used except in a
handful of major thoroughfares; people navigate by landmark. OSM has far
more navigable map of the city than googlemaps does. In some areas it
labels the street name in the local fashion (e.g. Road to Gerji Giorgis).
Yet it
The more you play with OpenStreetMap, the more magical ways you start
discovering that you can use the data. Two that I've recently found...
1. Water fountains. Here in London, we used to have lots of water
fountains. Then modern capitalism found a much better way of
delivering water to people:
