Gregory's ServerHmm indeed, if I wanted a map that keeps me "engaged" by drip-feeding me the info I want, and/or if I was bad enough (without making that a value judgement) at reading a map that OSM would overwhelm me, then google might be my map of choice. Fortunately for me, neither is the case. 🙂
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 @mmcm @organicmaps I'm not sure all people using gmaps would feel overwhelmed by OSM, but it's definitely in Google's interest give you a default service that also gives them data. Think of it this way: every month we read about one or other Google service being shut down. Why? Because it's not part of the cash cow. They tried and didn't return enough data. Maps and Earth very expensive toys, and yet I don't think it will ever be killed. In a less expensive way, gmail is similar. @mmcm @organicmaps ... but that sometimes OSM has better data in indisputable. One thing I can say, most of the time, gmaps has a better search UX. @mdione @organicmaps search UX as in UI interaction, yes. But google these days fails to find extremely simple and relevant results for which they *do* have the data (see example in my thread) and I have no idea how their engineers/PMs justify that besides "that company didn't pay us to advertise." I've been noticing this for over a year now that gmaps will say "end of results" for searches like "restaurant" when clearly within my viewport there are dozens of restaurants that they have data for |
@mdione @organicmaps on the other hand, I'm not entirely sure what the excuse would be not not return "Café Columbus", a coffee shop, when I search for "café" and the list of results does not even fill one page. If I was the owner of that café, I'd be pretty pissed and wondering what kind of bribe is being demanded here.