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Has anyone used or contributed to OpenStreetMap?
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I used OSM tiles when creating webmaps sometimes and they can be great.
That said it's coverage is inconsistent. This area around a highschool has really high detail footprints for the houses so I think it might have been part of their IT class at some point.
https://imgur.com/a/8PA8xBS
That's every village in Germany. Well, maybe not every, but it's not a surprising level of detail to me - interesting, how the investment into this project seems to vary a lot between countries. Do we maybe have a bit too much free time on our hands?