Yeah, I'm sure it can differ quite a lot from country to country. I live in Sweden, where we have very good official sources for roads from Lantmäteriet and Trafikverket, that some Swedish navigation services are using. I also feel that Google Maps is very far ahead in terms of updating main roads.
OSM depends on volunteers who have to know about the information of new or changed roads and then use their time to add it to the map. Even though the road network is available as open data, it's not easy to know what's missing or incorrectly mapped. There are a few Swedish mappers who are likely aware of such updates on a national level, but on a local level it very much depends if there are mappers in that particular area. And even then, a lot of details about routing restrictions, footways, cycleways etc. may not make it to OSM, simply because there's not a structured way of checking the OSM data vs official open data sources. But the question wasn't about how good OSM is for car navigation, but about differentiating different kinds of "paths". In Sweden we also have the "freedom to roam" or "everyman's right", which basically mean we can walk anywhere. There are lots of paths everywhere that are not on any official map, but are added to OSM. Even in other countries hiking paths are added in a way that they were not during the years of the path controversy. And there are both renderers and services offered for hiking that may be lacking data due to the difficulty of differentiating different kinds of paths. Until there's a better solution, I suppose this will be a never-ending discussion. :D But nevertheless, it's a very important discussion, since it's confusing both mappers and data consumers. /Daniel Den tors 21 maj 2020 kl 10:13 skrev Tom Pfeifer <t.pfei...@computer.org>: > On 21.05.2020 09:21, Daniel Westergren wrote: > > OSM is increasingly becoming more useful for forest trails than for car > roads > > (for which other sources are usually more up-to-date, to be honest). > > Which "other sources" are more up-to-date for car roads? Where I map, new > roads are documented in > OSM from early planning over construction, and mappers compete who is the > first to "open" the road > the same second the minister cuts the ribbon. > > tom > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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