Comment by gorfian_robot
10 months ago
same same. and I often find Organic Maps has hiking trails etc fairly well indicated where Google does not (even if I have cell service)
10 months ago
same same. and I often find Organic Maps has hiking trails etc fairly well indicated where Google does not (even if I have cell service)
I think this is less Organic vs Google than OpenStreetMap's data set vs Google's. I don't know why Google does so much worse with trails than OSM, but it really does.
> I don't know why Google does so much worse with trails than OSM, but it really does.
I expect that Google never saw a market in trail mapping. I also assume no Google employee took an interest in trails as a 10% project. Google Maps doesn't really do much for topography either.
Google Earth can be good for trail mapping, but that has basically atrophied since it was acquired from Keyhole.
Yeah, but the thing is that I don't think any of this data is "self-collected". I suspect that OSM gets most of its US trail data (or at least western state trail data) from the National Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. I also suspect that incorporating such a data source into Google Maps is relatively trivial, but they just seemed to have done so.
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