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Re:Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and... by WinstonSmith84 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:28AM (#28628195)
My complaint about details is that the maximum zoom has an approximate resolution of 1cm/km, just try it out. Is that unreasonable to ask for something more precise in 2021?

If some public money had to be spent to fund an alternative to Google Maps / Maps.me / etc., this could have been rather used to help some open source projects such as OpenStreetMap

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Re:Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and... by jhgb on Thursday September 23, 2021 @08:36AM (#28628262)
> Is that unreasonable to ask for something more precise in 2021?

As I pointed out below, simplifications are difficult. Lots of OSM-derived basemaps are fine when you zoom in but look daft at small scales (for example check out https://www.baremaps.com/assets/demo.html for this phenomenon). So if this map provides you with a good look at a small scale, adding in the details should be fairly easy. Doing it the other way around seems much tougher.

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Re:Open Maps for Europe: access official map, geospatial and... by habi on Thursday September 23, 2021 @01:19PM (#28632179)
> If some public money had to be spent to fund an alternative to Google Maps / Maps.me / etc.

Very nitpicky, but Maps.me is/uses OpenStreetMap.

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