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Why? Google is a low-quality road map for cars. They don't put much effort into walking. In the OSM community Google is considering a very low bar. We aim to meet or exceed the quality of mapping like Ordnance Survey.

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I take the parent comment to mean it's impressive that a community project outperforms one backed by a multi-billion dollar company - i.e. it's a compliment.

Yep! The multi-billion dollar company doesn't see a commerical reason to get good at walking details. Cars are more profitable. So they don't put effort into it.

A goal of OSM is to map _what we want mapped_, not what makes commercial sense to map.

Which is also a reason you'll find rural areas mapped really well in OSM and not at all in Google Maps: Why invest in a place where you cannot run advertisements?

I'm not saying OSM is more complete than Google maps, just that the incentives are different and therefore the coverage is different.

I agree. Both OSM and Sygic are way better navigation apps than Google Maps, even more so if you don't have internet connectivity.

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