I'm surprised at how quickly people advocating for OSM make the comparisons to Google maps. The user facing stuff at openstreetmap.org isn't comparable to maps.google.com or the various Google apps.
But OpenStreetMap isn't just the tiles you see at osm.org, it is a data product that you can adapt to whatever you need, for the simple price of attribution. And while the data is not complete, the global coverage is increasingly reasonable.
I'm surprised at how quickly people advocating for OSM make the comparisons to Google maps. The user facing stuff at openstreetmap.org isn't comparable to maps.google.com or the various Google apps.
But OpenStreetMap isn't just the tiles you see at osm.org, it is a data product that you can adapt to whatever you need, for the simple price of attribution. And while the data is not complete, the global coverage is increasingly reasonable.