I don’t think it’s a “problem with the indexing method” I think it’s a problem of data source. People sign up and pay to have their businesses listed on Google Maps as a marketing strategy. That’s a LOT of parallel effort that won’t be there for OpenStreetMap unless it somehow becomes a major player.
That’s true but as we lay down more ground work most people would become more interested in Openstreetmap as it has more information available to the public and a free api that would save thousands in costs.
It’s difficult enough to get people to use LibreOffice Calc instead of MS Excel. It’s damn near impossible to get people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp or even fucking SMS.
In the meantime, I don’t know of a Linux phone that has calls and texts working reliably.
I don’t think it’s a “problem with the indexing method” I think it’s a problem of data source. People sign up and pay to have their businesses listed on Google Maps as a marketing strategy. That’s a LOT of parallel effort that won’t be there for OpenStreetMap unless it somehow becomes a major player.
That’s true but as we lay down more ground work most people would become more interested in Openstreetmap as it has more information available to the public and a free api that would save thousands in costs.
It’s difficult enough to get people to use LibreOffice Calc instead of MS Excel. It’s damn near impossible to get people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp or even fucking SMS.
In the meantime, I don’t know of a Linux phone that has calls and texts working reliably.