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Re:We’re 10 today by Vik1ng on Saturday August 09, 2014 @02:26PM (#8157589)
But is that public domain data any good? Mappers in the US are still using MapRoulette to clean up Tiger imports etc.

I think it's also that many Europeans, especially Germans, are very sceptical of google while in the US google gets a lot of love, especially these days with fiber.

Re:We’re 10 today by rmc on Sunday August 10, 2014 @06:58AM (#8159416)
> But is that public domain data any good?

No not really. Some people think the import into OSM of TIGER data has hindered the creation of a US OSM community, because the map looks "good enough"/"looks done", when it in reality it's not.