Thank you guys at GS for offering an awesome service and a great site! I personally don't miss Google Maps, as OSM is much faster (not kidding, here in Beijing OSM is lightening fast, while Google Maps was a pain in the a**)! Sure, the quality of the maps is not always the same, but if Google choses to charge for a previously free service, there's no use in complaining. Already in the short time that I use the website, I have seen some improvements and I am sure you guys are doing your best to further improve it in the future. The PM is absolutely worth the money and I'll continue to be a PM in the future!
For all you other guys: If you get a free service (from Google) and they choose to charge for that, there's no need in blaming GS. If you guys would spend the time you are using to spam this board to improve the OSM maps, there would be hardly any reason to complain about. Sure the bad areal maps are the downside, but there are other solutions like GSAK, iCaching that still use Google Earth. Get used to the new situation!
+1 from me too.
I also don't mind OSM, those are the maps I use in my GPSr. I actually prefer it over Google Maps. I've noticed a few new sub-division and roads in my area so I created an account on OSM, made the changes with the online editor and in less than an hour, the changes were replicated on the Geocaching.com site. Now I just found a new hobby... I can geocache and contribute to the OSM community by improving the maps.
I just wish that we could select which map overlay we want by default on the Geocaching.com map.
The only problem I personally have with the new maps is that at work, we use an older version of internet explorer and for some reason, I can't change the map overlay... it won't let me select anything other than mapquest.
Geocaching.com site update Feb 14th, 2012
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Posted · Edited by snoozejade
+1 from me too.
I also don't mind OSM, those are the maps I use in my GPSr. I actually prefer it over Google Maps. I've noticed a few new sub-division and roads in my area so I created an account on OSM, made the changes with the online editor and in less than an hour, the changes were replicated on the Geocaching.com site. Now I just found a new hobby... I can geocache and contribute to the OSM community by improving the maps.
I just wish that we could select which map overlay we want by default on the Geocaching.com map.
The only problem I personally have with the new maps is that at work, we use an older version of internet explorer and for some reason, I can't change the map overlay... it won't let me select anything other than mapquest.