<story><title>Lost city in Darfur</title><url>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bdiscoe/diary/20539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>state</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think of myself as a luddite in any way, but one can&amp;#x27;t help but get the feeling that the image of the world brought to us by huge tech companies has gigantic holes in it.&lt;p&gt;When you spend all of your time inside of that image of the world it&amp;#x27;s difficult to see the gaps. I love this. It&amp;#x27;s as if he walked in to a void.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mxfh</author><text>This is more a shift in perception of what online maps are taken for. Online maps were traditionally made for one purpose only, car navigation, not to show a complete picture of the world.&lt;p&gt;And the only commercially geodata available in digital format, from a few specialized companies, were for car navigation in lucrative markets (like the US and Europe). It wasn&amp;#x27;t a given that online maps work properly or show more than base coverage outside those regions.&lt;p&gt;Only recently maps providers started integrating user created content.
OSM as a whole is also surprisingly sparse outside those established markets.&lt;p&gt;Just a reminder, back in 2007 Mexico wasn&amp;#x27;t even covered by Google.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://google-latlong.blogspot.de/2007/09/more-of-world-for-you-to-explore.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;google-latlong.blogspot.de&amp;#x2F;2007&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;more-of-world-for-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Lost city in Darfur</title><url>http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/bdiscoe/diary/20539</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>state</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think of myself as a luddite in any way, but one can&amp;#x27;t help but get the feeling that the image of the world brought to us by huge tech companies has gigantic holes in it.&lt;p&gt;When you spend all of your time inside of that image of the world it&amp;#x27;s difficult to see the gaps. I love this. It&amp;#x27;s as if he walked in to a void.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cpayne</author><text>Couldn&amp;#x27;t agree more.  Its like a Doctor Who episode.&lt;p&gt;- It shouldn&amp;#x27;t be there?&lt;p&gt;- Try telling that to the local population...</text></comment>