Apple has a team right now working on OSM: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues

The article just strikes me as plain wrong in this regard. Yes, of course Apple isn't going to use OSM in the Bay Area, but it's a big world out there.

There's no technical limitation whatsoever in the way of using OSM as a primary data source and also doing things like using phone telemetry to add roads to your local display map.

It'd likely be necessary to make that data available under the same license OSM is under, but that'd be it.

The way people use OSM, they grab a dump of the data and then load it into a database or whatever (probably processing it into a convenient schema) and then build maps from that database. So it's pretty easy to have more than 1 source contributing to the map you are displaying.

For updates, edits to OSM are available minute by minute, so if your data ingestion is up to it you don't have to put up with the stale data:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Planet.osm/diffs#Minutel...

That's absolutely possible on osm, in fact new roads are often on OSM before they reach Google maps

Google Maps gets really bad in rural areas, I was shocked on a recent trip in Washington state at how bad their maps are. They seemed to have half the businesses in town on the map, but the roads were inaccurate, missing, and sometimes just plain wrong.

OSM comparatively was of much higher caliber, which was surprising.

My estate is 3 years old. Google has no mention. Apple is incorrect. Openstreetmap is accurate since the day each road was opened up.