Comments on: Why bother with OSM on your iPhone? http://blog.cloudmade.com/2007/10/30/why-bother-with-osm-on-your-iphone/ The CloudMade Blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:47:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: smsm1986 http://blog.cloudmade.com/2007/10/30/why-bother-with-osm-on-your-iphone/#comment-3 smsm1986 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 19:33:47 +0000 http://blog.cloudmade.com/2007/10/30/why-bother-with-osm-on-your-iphone/#comment-3 Does Google contain train stations? Whenever I look for train stations, I find using Google is a complete waste of time, and revert to OpenStreetMap, even in areas where there are virtually no roads showing up around the station. Last night I made the mistake of using Google Maps to look up a post code. It was over a mile out from the real location, thus making me an hour late for work. On the other hand OpenStreetMap was only one street out, about a few hundred metres. Maybe OpenStreetMap has more data, or more importantly more reliable data than I previously thought. With hindsight I'll use OpenStreetMap as a first choice more often. Next up is to try and get the rest of Edinburgh named after someone has gone and traced all the streets through the Yahoo satellite images. Does Google contain train stations? Whenever I look for train stations, I find using Google is a complete waste of time, and revert to OpenStreetMap, even in areas where there are virtually no roads showing up around the station.

Last night I made the mistake of using Google Maps to look up a post code. It was over a mile out from the real location, thus making me an hour late for work. On the other hand OpenStreetMap was only one street out, about a few hundred metres. Maybe OpenStreetMap has more data, or more importantly more reliable data than I previously thought. With hindsight I’ll use OpenStreetMap as a first choice more often.

Next up is to try and get the rest of Edinburgh named after someone has gone and traced all the streets through the Yahoo satellite images.

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