Comment 29 for bug 264138

As time has passed (two years now since the "bug" was first reported), OpenStreetMap has continued to grow its data rapidly and it is becoming increasingly usable in many places around the world. In some areas it has already surpassed the quality of Google Maps and Co (in fact for example MapQuest and Bing have them selves recently begun to use OSM data in select places in their map products), in others it is indeed still worse. So it seems like it might be a possibility to re-evaluate your choice and offer OpenStreetMap as an _additional_ source to your current Google Maps.

Luckily you don't need to replace all your existing google maps api code (although a switch to the opensource library OpenLayers would be nice), as you can just continue to use it. Google maps api allows you very easily to add OpenStreetMap as an additional layer with only a few lines of javascript.

That way, you can try out OpenStreetMap without much hassle and see if your users complain or like it.

You can find some examples of how to do it at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google_Maps_Example or http://www.hackvalue.nl/en/article/61/using_openstreetmaps_with_the_google_maps_api