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OSM will eventually become the standard and Google has, somewhat, contributed to that.

Google may have messed up, initially, but the future of mapping solutions never belonged to anyone.

I think OSM will gain even more momentum as new open source tools to trace arieal satellite imagery before more abundant. IMHO, the future belongs to a curated crowd source content.

Maybe it's just early days, but most of the time when I've tried OSM the sought address was shown in the wrong location, sometimes by blocks.

Yeah, that's true. There are still gaps in the set, but it has come a long way in the last few years.

True but I think this price change is purely to stop people who are considering moving (because of high prices) from doing so.

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