Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap (OSM) are two popular platforms that we know. For those who haven’t heard of them here is some brief information about them. Wikipedia was formally launched on January 15, 2001 and now it’s one of the most used and famous free internet encyclopaedias. OpenStreetMap (OSM) was created 3 years later in the UK and it was inspired by the success of Wikipedia and preponderance of proprietary map data in the UK and elsewhere. OSM is basically a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.
There is some equalities, but there is also some inequalities between them.
They both appear to be equally open any easy to use to the users.But there are some differences. Wikipedia contains a bigger amount of information than OSM. Also as Wikipedia is so popular everywhere and it is offering all kind of information in various fields, it is visited by million people every day , of any gender and age. On the other hand some people are not familiar or even haven't heard of OSM , like for example Google Maps and that is actually the main reason why they are avoiding using it.In my opinion OSM is really good and better than Google Maps. It is a wiki-like map that anyone in the world can edit. If a store is missing from the map, it can be added in by a store owner or even a customer ,also with OSM data a user is free to download some, or all of the map offline and this means that it's possible to use it to navigate without giving his location away to anyone at all.
There is some equalities, but there is also some inequalities between them.
They both appear to be equally open any easy to use to the users.But there are some differences. Wikipedia contains a bigger amount of information than OSM. Also as Wikipedia is so popular everywhere and it is offering all kind of information in various fields, it is visited by million people every day , of any gender and age. On the other hand some people are not familiar or even haven't heard of OSM , like for example Google Maps and that is actually the main reason why they are avoiding using it.In my opinion OSM is really good and better than Google Maps. It is a wiki-like map that anyone in the world can edit. If a store is missing from the map, it can be added in by a store owner or even a customer ,also with OSM data a user is free to download some, or all of the map offline and this means that it's possible to use it to navigate without giving his location away to anyone at all.
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