On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 8:28 AM, John Mitchell <mitchellj...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I use googlemaps or the old classic mapquest for driving directions in > the US it always finds the addresses that I am looking for but using the new > mapquest in most cases does not because of the incomplete address > information that it is using. If I am a user and I can't find an address > within mapquest and then go to googlemaps and find it then I would not try > the new mapquest again.
Well that is the problem (currently) of using OSM data. Our addressing (at least in the US) is pretty lacking. This isn't really MQ's fault - it's ours :) > Why can't Mapquest donate the addresses that they currently use within the > old mapquest (classic) to openstreetmap so that it has the complete address > information? Would we want it? I guess "anything is better than nothing" might be a valid argument but typically the locational accuracy from other map providers is pretty low, at least around here. Searching for my address on other map sites puts me a good block from my actual location in an apartment complex. OSM puts me within 6 inches (resolution of the aerial imagery I used to trace my complex) of the bottom of the stairs that you go up to get to my apartment. Toby _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
