[mvexel]

Part of this resurgence can undoubtedly be explained by the ready availability of high quality open geospatial data sources like OpenStreetMap.

The United States has always had a lot of open geospatial data available, but it's patchy, can be hard to find, and is of wildly varying quality. In Europe, open (geospatial) data has become the norm, but that wasn't the case even 10 years ago. And in spite of harmonization efforts, it can still be hard to cobble together map data that is consistent across countries from government sources.

[courgette]

I live between France and the US. France has https://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/ and IGN topographic map of every square centimeter of the country. The US has... google map and you can also find some decent topographic map online. It's just way harder to find the paper version. ( must have in my book for hiking and such )

That article actually provide great resources to buy good topographic map of the US. It's been a struggle and a frustration for me.