OpenStreetMap
New housing developments mapped before Teleatlas and Navteq
Posted by daveemtb on 16 November 2009 in English (English)This housing development was recently mapped on OSM, within a month or two of completion. It is still years out of date in Google maps' Teleatlas data:
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.113283,-0.17503&spn=0.005099,0.009624&z=17
Or, Yahoo's Navteq data:
http://uk.maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=51.113588&lon=-0.175537&zoom=17
The same goes for another development (half completed on the ground)
http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.105961,-0.147221&spn=0.005099,0.009624&z=17
http://uk.maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=51.105545&lon=-0.147127&zoom=18
Comment from 42429 on 16 November 2009 at 14:36
In Germany, you can find newly built streets in nearly each village:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/New_and_Changed_Ways
Have of these new streets have been noticed by a single user. It would be nice if other users would add their newly built streets as well.
Comment from HannesHH on 16 November 2009 at 16:02
This is why OSM is the best map ever (stupid saying but it is true).
Comment from daveemtb on 16 November 2009 at 16:17
FK270673, please feel free to add these streets to that page. My wiki skills aren't great with tables etc. :(
Comment from amm on 16 November 2009 at 18:49
While were at google maps and TeleAtlas bashing, I might as well throw in my example too. This example is not a small little housing estate, but a redevelopment of a major road intersection right in the heart of London just to the east of the city. I think the redevelopment was finished in April and was updated in OSM the next day. Google Maps and Yahoo are still showing the old road layout. I wonder how long it will take them
Google:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.514285,-0.069995&spn=0.006517,0.01929&z=16
Yahoo:
http://maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=51.515244&lon=-0.071947&zoom=17
OSM:
http://osm.org/go/euu6DfOj
Comment from !i! on 17 November 2009 at 13:16
Great work!