Philip Homburg wrote: > In your letter dated Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:03:09 +0000 you wrote: > >> Frederik Ramm wrote: >> >>>> But the routing/tagging of OSM doesn't fit anything at the moment. >>>> >>> Huh? >>> >> Please take that in context with its following sentence. Can you show me >> a router that can get me door to door no matter where I live? >> > > If the data is not 100% complete and accurate it is useless? > > Get real.
Realizing that the database isn't up to the job it was designed for is getting real, instead of stick heads in the sand & pretending it's not happening. > I just tried the Google maps app. on my G1 to get home from work by > bike. It was horrible. The app itself is horrible, and the map is bad: > bike paths are not there. > > In contrast, openstreetmap data gets me there by car and bike. The lack of > house numbers is annoying though. So it is not door to door, but street to > street. And for me that is good enough. > But not good enough for others evidently. Comparing with Google is irrelevant. Even if Google were 100% accurate, OSM would still have been rejected by the organizations mentioned. > And yes, the situation is not as bright in other countries. But I think it > is pointless to wait until OSM has 100% perfection everywhere to start using > it. > You seem to be missing point. We've been told that they don't want to use it > Of course lots of people are already using it. Promoting for example > openmtbmap over other maps on a Garmin. > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
