Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps

Re:Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps by fhars on Monday December 26, 2011 @02:21PM (#3393670)

On the other hand, google maps has been showing a road right through our neighbours' living room for the last ten years, while OSM correctly shows all roads and footpaths. Different maps have different errors, look what works for you.

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Re:Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps by jsnell on Monday December 26, 2011 @05:58PM (#3394158)

That's a nice story, but obviously not true.

Google Maps was first published in 2005, so it's been doing nothing for the "last 10 years"... And during that time they've changed base map data providers several times in most countries (Navteq -> Tele Atlas -> Google), making it incredibly unlikely that such errors would have persisted for the whole time.

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Re:Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps by michaelcampbell on Monday December 26, 2011 @07:32PM (#3394331)

Have you "reported a problem"? The "tile" under my property was misaligned and the road that it showed on the map was about 50' skewed from the satellite view. I did the report a problem thing and they fixed it in 12 hours. I'd let it be like that for years, figuring no one would care...

I might have gotten very lucky there, but it can't hurt to report it, right?

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