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by bdon 1064 days ago
Thanks - for the issues related to freeway interchanges and rivers, it would be most helpful to report these on GitHub using screenshots and links to lat/lon positions, or even links to OSM nodes and ways.

OSM is a freeform dataset and not a cartographic product, so most of the basemap work now and in the future is on getting good results of this transformation for 200+ countries. The mismatch vs. existing maps must exist because we need to ensure to downstream commercial users that all end products of the map generation are openly licensed - that's why this is being pursued as an independent, self-funded project with support from GitHub Sponsors: http://github.com/sponsors/protomaps

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Ok, I’ll dig a bit more to get some good test cases with the local data that I’m familiar with, and make sure that it’s not something that I’m doing wrong.