[virtualritz]

Kind of. It seems to have more data, but not nearly as much as Google. Of ten places I searched for, it knew two.

Also the search function is stupid. Say, I am zoomed into a city and enter a term. Instead of searching the city I am looking at, it searches the whole world.

Or lets say I searched for a restaurant. When I am zoomed into the max, Google Maps will show me all restaurants around the area (that makes sense, doesn't it)?

That's just basic UX stuff which, until fixed, will prevent people from using this over Google maps. Or rather: if will prevent people like me, to advertise it to their non-hacker friends, as I know, stuff like this will make them have a hard time and later tell me "it didn't work for me"

I guess what I'm trying to say is: OSM needs to be as useable as GM, before people will switch in masses.