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OSM is more up to date than the official sources

Thanks everyone, for more examples and cases. I’m sure it would be great if those could be used for promoting OSM to a wider audience.

I have another case BTW. I’ve been struggling with various online services requiring my address. They would put the markers on the building next to ours when I’d entered my address and if they let me do it, I’d move the pin manually everytime. I traced the error back to Ordnance Survey (UK’s national mapping agency) data. The building numbers have been wrong all this time in their data so all the services using their api (even Google Maps) carried over this error. Even our borrough’s council is displaying the house nubmers wrong :facepalm: But that is not the case of course for thOSM.

OSM is more up to date than the official sources

mboeringa incredible that all those stubborn drivers persistently tried to use that narrow passage :D

You’re right. Maps and online services are merely tools to support people in their daily lives, but if they are so dependent on those technologies that they can’t act reasonably without them, we’re lucky that at least OSM is up to date thanks to all those contributors like yourself :D

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Great work! Thanks for the detailed post.