Thread: HERE Maps has been sold
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hedayat is offline hedayat
2015-08-09 , 06:04
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Originally Posted by mikecomputing View Post
that's very naive thinking. I guess only 1% use openstreet map and only 10% of them contribute. So open street map will be for geeks with half baked maps especially in small countrys such as my country. With 99.9% using google maps.

And about sell Here I am disapointed. Now only a few car manufactors will have access to a good decent map. And as said here already if SFOS has to pay big fees we can soon forget about here on SFOS.

Stupid Nokia
While OSM might not be as complete as GoogleMaps (or Nokia) (well, it highly depends on the area. some areas have high quality maps donated by governments or companies. In my area, it really has usually better coverage than Nokia one which lacks a lot in details).

But, it is not my point. The point is that I think if community is going to back some mapping, OSM probably deserves it more than any other commercial solution. It is really unfortunate that Google receives many contributions form people while (AFAIK) it has restricted licensing. What I lack personally is a good application with proper "offline" working support: so that I can tell it to download full map of my area and then work offline. TBH, I've never tested routing on OSM maps, but if it is lacking we can make it better too!
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