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Subject: Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?
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Carlos,

>> Yes, there is OpenStreets to replace Google Maps, but I've used OSM, and
>> then dropped it since it gets some data from city plats for roads that
>> don't yet exist, and may never exist,

Using OSMAnd myself, I've seen pedestrian "road" data which has become 
obsolete at least a decade ago (if not two or more).  In a city. :-|

>> and much of its data is crowd sourced, so areas with few reporting OSM
>> users are sketchy or missing.
....
> Yes, of course, OSM depends on its contributors.

Although I was able to download the relevant map data and figure out which
nodes need to be removed and could estmate(1) which nodes would need to be
added(2), I was never able to figure out where to send such information.
Does either of you know ?

(1) a test with the GPS of a tablet I had didn't give me much confidence in
its accuracy.

(2) I never was able to find an authorative source to what this "diff" file
should look like though.

>> Free just means free, not necessarily equal nor better.

Replace "free" with "payed for", and the same is true. :-) :-(

Regards,
Rudy Wieser