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by codeka 2376 days ago
The exact same problem exists with volunteer-maintained maps. In fact it's even worse there because at least with a commercial map, quality is basically correlated with where the users are. With a volunteer-maintained map, quality is correlated with where the volunteers are, which is not necessarily going to be where the users are.
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Thousands of volunteers specifically map remote areas they don't live in through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team