Aun Johnsen wrote:
I noticed tonight, through the shipping site gcaptain.com, on one of their articles following the cruise disaster of Costa Concordia off the coast of Italy, that some news sources use OSM maps to illustrate the area of the grounding.
OSM usually has a lot more detail. Also because a lot of people are tracing from detailed BING imagery.
On the following page you can compare the look (and maybe a little detail) difference between Google map, traditional ECDIS (nautical electronic map display) and OSM of the area around Giglio Porto, where the cruise liner hit a submerged rock and finally sank.
If that red line is the course the vessel took than I can understand why the captain has been arrested and charged for manslaughter. It's stupid to sail a 290m long and 35m wide vessel through a 60 meter gap if you don't have to.
Regards, Maarten _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
