Stefan de Konink wrote: > I'm really wondering who is pulling the strings there, because now > it is even more trivial to see how much better we are. Anyone is > seeing this happening in their area's as well?
Certainly in the UK there's a lot more 'Google-sourced' data appearing on the maps, often seemingly scraped from the web. http://blog.telemapics.com/?p=344 is an amusing take on it all. I think it's generally assumed that this is a precursor to Google dumping TeleAtlas data completely and replacing it with their own data, largely sourced from StreetView cars - just as has happened in the States. cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Did-Googles-map-quality-recently-degrade-tp5858040p5859573.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk