Open Street Maps better than Google Maps?
Posted by David R Whittall on 30 November 2010 in English.Google Maps might look better, but lot of the Roads shown in Cebu Philippines (and probably elsewhere in the Philippines also), where these is not high resolution satellite images, the Roads are not accurate at all.
I did try editing Google Maps, after signing up to Google Map Maker, but it really bad and tedious to do any edits since Junctions cant be edited at same time as changes to existing Roads. You have to wait until a change is approved, before continuing with the Edit.
Whilst OpenStreetMaps might not have the detail of Google Maps, and as many Roads shown, the accuracy is very much better (presumably since Contributors work fro, Garmin GPS Tracks?
I have a Nokia N95 8GB, which does have an internal GPS. I tend to use an external Bluetooth GPS Logger (Wintec G-Rays2)so my N95 can also store the GPS Track to Sports Tracker application. This lets me export as Google Earth .KML format or as GARMIN .GPX format, or as .XML or as CSV format.
I was invited to a friends house in Balamban on Saturday, and travelled via the Tabunok - Toledo Route, then up to Balamban. We stayed @ Sailors Cabin Lodge, 3Km from Balamban. this Brit friend lives down this dirt track, that then becomes concrete, leading to Shell refinery. We then went to a German Restaurant Zwiebels, that has the location on Wikimapia, but does not show the track of how to get there.
We returned to Talisay City via the Trans Central Highway.
I only had to do some minor edits (mainly adding few more points to smooth curves) and to align with my GPS Track (The Wintec GPS Logger, set to record on time interval and change of direction by more than 2 degrees)
Discussion
Comment from wassim on 30 November 2010 at 11:10
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Comment from wassim on 30 November 2010 at 11:10
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Comment from pr0wl on 30 November 2010 at 15:23
I think the main problem with osm is the bad search system which does not allow mistyped stuff
Comment from lezurdis on 30 November 2010 at 21:55
Just to mention that GPX is not GARMIN format.
GPX is an open standard (based on XML) for interchange of GPS data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_eXchange_Format
http://www.topografix.com/gpx.asp
Comment from David R Whittall on 30 November 2010 at 23:52
@ lezurdis :-
OK so .gpx is not a proprietary GARMIN format, but an Open Standard GPS Format, but nether the less, is THE GPS Format used by GARMIN devices (that seem to be the most 'popular' GPS logger device that most tend to use?).
It is also the GPS Format that http://www.waypoints.ph/index.html accept GPS Route contributions in to become an active Member.