On: Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google Maps

[maxerickson]

Not necessarily. If the address lookup is making a wrong inference from correct data, then there wouldn't be anything to fix in the data.

[Reason077 → maxerickson]

That case sounds like a bug/algorithm issue with address lookup software. If the OSM data is correct, then it would make the same mistake with any other correct map data source, right?

But in this case, it sounds like the issue is that a private driveway is mis-labelled as a public route. This sort of thing is trivial to fix in OSM.

[maxerickson → Reason077]

They state in the thread that the driveway was quickly corrected. I thought it was reasonable to assume we were talking about the addressing issue.