Foursquare ditches Google Maps  

The Foursquare blog:

Starting today, we’re embracing the OpenStreetMap movement, so all the maps you see when you go to foursquare.com will look a tiny bit different (we think the new ones are really pretty). Other than slightly different colors and buttons, though, foursquare is still the same site you know and love.

Strange decision. OpenStreetMap with MapBox is cheaper, more detailed in some areas, and easier to customize. But it’s fundamentally worse than Google Maps in the one area where it matters the most: cartography. (Updated to include the map Foursquare is using, which is actually pretty decent for their uses but still, I think, worse than Google Maps.)

See the screenshot above at full size. Which one is easier to parse?