"but where Google starts to go haywire is in the properly mapped areas."
As someone who lives remote in the Netherlands, I can agree to that. DHL, UPS, even ambulances; they are still unable to find my house although I am living here 7 years now. But, I think OSM is also going haywire in the Netherlands, where we've all been blinded by imports and lack true numbers of mappers to keep the entire country acurate and actual. I have been using maps.me to route from my house to Delft, Leiden, Utrecht and all the way up to Den Helder and I have collected screenshots of strange routing errors that, in my personal opinion, are due to nobody being involved in the road-routing quality in the Netherlands. As routing is one of the basics for self driving cars, this is (and on this I DO agree with the author of the blog) troublesome. I still think (and I actively tried to send out this message between 2008~2012) that an inclusive community and growing such a community should be one of the focus points of the OSMF.
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