I'm assuming that these maps will be used(in future) for navigation purposes.
eg: Navigation in Mobile Phones, automobiles etc.,
Can these be achieved in current competition from Google-maps??
Am I right??
OpenStreetMap
I'm assuming that these maps will be used(in future) for navigation purposes.
eg: Navigation in Mobile Phones, automobiles etc.,
Can these be achieved in current competition from Google-maps??
Am I right??
Discussion
Comment from Richard on 16 January 2009 at 20:45
It's already used in navigation for (pedal) cycles. You can't do that with Google Maps or indeed much else.
Comment from arturormk on 16 January 2009 at 23:10
To adapt OSM maps for the purpose of route planning for car navigation with a minimum degree of trustworthiness would be a project almost as complex as OSM itself, though when OSM matures such a project might become viable (right now there's so much missing content that people don't worry too much about streets going in the wrong direction, or lane counts, or missing road links).
But there's more to maps than just car GPS navigators, and just as you shouldn't trust only Yahoo! Maps or (even worse) Tele Atlas maps in many areas because half of the stuff seems made up (or badly guessed at from aerial photographs), OSM is one more source available for map data. With its strong points (free to use as you please, user surveyed) and its weak points (incompleteness).
In the future, even Tele Atlas will be able to use OSM, and that way hopefully they will get their maps right :-)
Comment from harriercoold on 17 January 2009 at 03:38
yo can see this
http://downloads.cloudmade.com/
http://www.yournavigation.org/
http://www.mgmaps.com/
Comment from smsm1 on 20 January 2009 at 12:15
I'm currently beta testing auto re-routing on my mobile. It is very useful for finding bad osm data, which I of course correct when I get home.