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by rmc 3978 days ago
Where abouts are you looking at? The OSM community in the USA is a bit weak, so the data there isn't great. In many European countries, the data is great.

(A part of me likes the schaudenfreude, how there's this big tech/open source thing, and for once USA isn't #1 for availablility)

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At Europe, heh. There was a number of incomplete spots on the map last I checked.

And coming from the web interface, I honestly thought the map is just that, a map, with no data regarding traffic other than maybe one-way streets. And that it simply doesn't support routing.

"OpenStreetDatabase" is probably a more accurate name, since it's more of a Database than a Map. But there you go. OSM doesn't have much (anything?) about traffic. But it has lots of stuff for routing, and POIs and so forth.