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Re:How Google Could Collapse by IshKebab on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:50AM (#15089286)
There's nothing wrong with OSM but you can't pretend it is on the same level as Google Maps. Where is streetview? Business opening times? Reviews? Phone numbers? Directions? Turn-by-turn navigation? Live traffic? Historical traffic?

Google Maps now has a live busynessometer for some businesses. And 3D models of entire cities, even non-London ones.

As a traditional paper map OSM is fine, but Google Maps is now far more than that.

Re:How Google Could Collapse by rmc on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:06AM (#15089371)
> Where is streetview? Business opening times? Reviews? Phone numbers? Directions? Turn-by-turn navigation? Live traffic? Historical traffic?

Traffic and street view are hard, and expensive, to do because you need to drive around the place to take photos, or to have enough data points for traffic information.

Reviews are hard because they are subjective, and how do you deal with spam, with moderation, with fake reviews, etc.

The other things? They're in OSM (to varing degrees of completness):

* Business opening times: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:opening_hours * Phone Numbers: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:phone * Simple 3d modelling: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/3D * Directions/turn-by-turn has existed for a long time, e.g. on the main website itself, or software like Graphhopper or OSRM.

Yes OSM is has much less features than Google, but the OSM Foundation only has income of about £97,000 per year. Google has considerible more financial strength.

Re:How Google Could Collapse by sametmax on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:27AM (#15089500)
You are completely missing the point. This is not a critic of the OSM project. Most of the commenters love that it exists. It's just that if you click on your mobile on google map and osm map, you get a vastly different experience. It's objective.
Re:How Google Could Collapse by rmc on Thursday August 24, 2017 @09:42AM (#15090015)
Yes, you're right, they are different things. I'm just pointing out that OSM isn't as bad for some of the things you mentioned.

(BTW there isn't one osm map app for mobile devices)

Re:How Google Could Collapse by fghtr on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:38AM (#15097440)
> Where is streetview?

Far from perfect, but it exists: http://openstreetcam.org/map/