I imagine Google Maps benefits from having a much larger user base to provide feedback. For us consumers, Google maps is designed for us. Oh well.HERE maps will continue to improve for driving, as it's now owned by a consortium of car makers and they rely on HERE maps for mapping data in the car. HERE Maps actually has transit information as well so i'm not sure why Bing maps doesn't have it. Those are things missing from Bing maps as well. That, or they don't care about mapping.Another thing you might be thinking about is the feature set that Google Maps has, like public transit information and integration with Uber. So I would chalk it up to bad app design chops from Microsoft. Here's the thing though….if you use HERE's app (HereWeGo) on Android you'll see the app's design is not as behind as Bing maps. But if you're talking about the front-end, the app layout and design, then yes, the Bing maps app design is not as well thought out as Google's. Bing Maps gets its data from HERE maps – so if you have a problem with inaccurate maps, then you can't really blame Microsoft for that. Geotagged photo platform Mapillary had opened its street-level imagery to OpenStreetMap editors as far back as 2014 too.The problem could be twofold. The service was later rebranded as OpenStreetCam, at Google’s request.
It was basically a crowdsourced version of Google Street View, with users invited to upload imagery snapped on their mobile phones. OpenStreetCamĪ couple of years back, a dedicated OSM team at location-services giant Telenav announced OpenStreetView (OSV), a completely “free and open street-level imagery platform” designed for OpenStreetMap. In many ways, OSM is as good as Google Maps in terms of global coverage, but Google has other related smarts that set it apart - such as Google Earth and Street View, which offers users panoramic street-level imagery of roads, countryside, mountains, and more. For context, OSM doesn’t garner the same kind of attention as other mapping platforms, chiefly because it’s not designed as a consumer-focused service - it’s more of a backend that developers can use to integrate mapping services into their own applications.
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