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Google maps could definitely be improved upon. it makes mistakes all the time, and the huge feature they brag about -- being cloud based / up to date -- is never up to date enough to really matter. there has been construction going on for months on a major road in my city, and google maps still pretends it is open. so much for the cloud.

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openstreetmaps is much faster for that kind of things :) not unlike wikipedia is much faster at updating than a normal encyclopedia, or something like that.

I've been wondering, how long does it take for a change to go from an edit in OSM, to being live in a routing app using OSM data? (If such an app exists)

Editing something is usually fast, having it percolate to all users of the data is much longer (for GMaps, but I expect it's similar for OSM).

it depends: some tiles are updated very frequently for visualization. My experience is that it is no more than a hour or so to see the changes live. Therefore if somebody pulls from OSM, it will get the new version.

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