Well, I don't care if Google is obtaining these roads manually or automatically. The result is lousy in both cases.
Have a look what a single local mapper can achieve and compare it to Google http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=googlemap&mt1=mapnik&lon=102.67883&lat=16. 62325&zoom=14 And the map is also available bilingual http://thaimap.osm-tools.org/?zoom=14&lat=16.62325&lon=102.67883&layers=B00 On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 6:35 PM Jean-Marc Liotier [mailto:j...@liotier.org] wrote: I sometimes work on Senegal from Bing imagery, and I'll hopefully convince some Senegalese friends to help me with names and POI. I took a look at the competition's progress and I have been very impressed : whereas Openstreetmap could formerly claim better coverage in Africa, it is now lagging in volume behind Google - take a look at http://goo.gl/maps/mH3pK (equivalent area in OSM at http://osm.org/go/azSB9oX--). Google now features impressive mileage of dirt tracks and residential dirt streets in obscure backwaters. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
