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by thriftwy 1232 days ago
OpenStreetMap already often has awesome coverage of remote places in Africa where I would expect Google Maps to be spotty.
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I noticed yesterday that it's missing all the houses in my neighborhood (South Bend IN). A few blocks over it's complete, but I have some work to do on my block.

It's not new construction. This house is close to 100 years old. It's just never been mapped by the hard-working volunteers of OSM.

You too are one of those hard working volunteers. Thank you for your contributions to the dataset and platform.
It has markedly better coverage in Nepal, Morocco, Central Asia, and quite frankly anywhere I have checked. It has been very useful when I travelled by motorcycle, and I've contributed a few hundred hotels and petrol stations in those places to return the favour.