Why? Google is a low-quality road map for cars. They don't put much effort into walking. In the OSM community Google is considering a very low bar. We aim to meet or exceed the quality of mapping like Ordnance Survey.
I take the parent comment to mean it's impressive that a community project outperforms one backed by a multi-billion dollar company - i.e. it's a compliment.
Yep! The multi-billion dollar company doesn't see a commerical reason to get good at walking details. Cars are more profitable. So they don't put effort into it.
A goal of OSM is to map _what we want mapped_, not what makes commercial sense to map.
obliobli|6 years ago
rmc|6 years ago
A goal of OSM is to map _what we want mapped_, not what makes commercial sense to map.
mtgx|6 years ago