On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 4:29 AM, Maarten Deen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2018-02-17 10:56, Oleksiy Muzalyev wrote: > >> This article is on the front page of the Slashdot today: >> >> Fri 16 February 2018 "Why OpenStreetMap is in Serious Trouble" >> >> https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/ >> > > Interesting that he mentions that "the proprietary mapping world has > continued to improve in data quality". > > In the Netherlands I see the opposite for google maps. Sure, they may have > improved their coverage in areas that were badly mapped of old (Africa, > Asia) and I'm sure this can be contributed to OSM, but where Google starts > to go haywire is in the properly mapped areas. > New roads appear weeks even, months after they are finished (Netherlands > A5 or the roundabout at Joure where Google even now gives you an option > over the roundabout that does not exist anymore) but also in names of > places. Google has started to use very quaint and hardly used translations > for cities abroad. > For instance, Ljubljana is now displayed as Laibach, Maribor is Marburg an > der Drau, both German translations at best and not used in the Netherlands. > Or a few even weirder ones in france, a place called Oz just north of > l'Alpe D'Huez is now called Oostzijde (eastside) or Oradour-sur-Glane which > shows as "Bloedbad van Oradour-sur-Glane" (bloodbath of Oradour-sur-Glane) It's just as bad in most of the US. I covered this extensively on Reddit <https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/7y69pp/why_openstreetmap_is_in_serious_trouble_emacsens/duejr9t/?context=3&st=jdt2d7q9&sh=d8daad77> .
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