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OSM data is highly variable in quality. Features like building footprint geometries will be great in some areas and completely missing in others. This is not easily detectable, and when you pull open a google map, they often have those features.


When going to less developed regions, it's the reverse.

You don't even know if towns will be on the map with Google, but with OSM, there's always at least something.


You are spot on here, not sure why you got downvoted.


in some country they could import cadaster data. The licence, policy and quality of these differs from one country to another.




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