OpenStreetMap
Bangkok Police should better use openstreetmap Data!
Posted by Edmund_Humenberger on 12 January 2014 in German (Deutsch).As shown on Television, I compare the Bangkok Map from the police with the Map Data available in OSM.
Please see for yourself
The police version:
![Police]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By-zY9AlHqXIOHd5MTZubnBxRzg/edit?usp=sharing
Now the Police Version with OpenStreetmap Data overlay!
![osm]https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By-zY9AlHqXIaFN1R2NtS0s0WEk/edit?usp=sharing
What a difference!
PS: (I guess that the Bangkok police might have a better map somewhere else available :-)
Discussion
Comment from giggls on 23 January 2014 at 10:03
IMO Bangkok is not mapped very good in OSM yet.
Comment from kusmi on 24 January 2014 at 14:10
I’m sorry to say this, but Google does a better work here. It’s all about map generalization - for smaller zoomlevels the map has to reduce the complexity and only show a simplified view.
In your example, Google does this much better than OSM - no need to show buildings at this zoomlevel or any tiny street - it just overwhelms the user.
If you zoom-in on this Google map you see similar details as on OSM.
A glaring example is the world-overview on OSM. Try to find the important cities or country-boundaries on zoomlevel 5 over Europe… and try the same with Google.