[rmc]

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.

[berkes]

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.