XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android   
   From: andys@nospam.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote on Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:32:02 +0100 :   
      
   > Around here, Open Street Maps are pretty good, and they are gratis. You   
   > can not say a blanket statement that they are horrendous.   
      
   Keeping to the topic of free maps & apps (since I never pay for them)...   
      
   You seem to know more than most people about maps, Carlos, and for that I   
   respect your judgment. Rest assured, I know more than most people do also.   
      
   Most people are shockingly ignorant on how bad the OSM map data is.   
   I'm not.   
      
   Where I live, in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, I've thoroughly   
   tested *every* free map application known to Android (and I've written   
   tutorials on all of them - which we can dig up in the Usenet archives).   
      
   Suffice to say that OSMAnd (all variants) is a *GREAT* product.   
   And the concept of Open Street Maps is also a *GREAT* idea.   
      
   Of all people, of course I love the *idea* of open street maps, Carlos.   
      
   It's just that I've *tested* the accuracy of the Open Street Maps   
   topological maps inside of OSMAnd~ versus the USGS maps in Avenza.   
      
   There's no comparison.   
   a. In my tests, the open street maps were horrendously inaccurate.   
   b. The USGS maps were merely inaccurate.   
      
   I'd love it not to be that way; but it is what it is (in my tests).   
      
   We've discussed this on the sci.geo.satellite-nav newsgroup in gory detail,   
   and the only people objecting are those who have no access to USGS maps.   
      
   Which makes sense since the free OSM maps are the best free maps they have.   
      
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