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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by lukeqsee on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:11PM (#18913376)
I believe Apple at least augments their data with OSM data; however, I suspect the primary driver of this decision was price.

Edit: request are succeeding for me now.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by mtmail on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @01:14PM (#18913408)
Apple employee spoke at a recent OSM conference. Yes, they use OSM data as well. In some countries more than others. Apple also has a fulltime staff working on OSM. https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues, https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Brakenshire on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @06:14PM (#18916619)
Apple can only use OSM data pre license change which is very old now, those links are to contributions Apple is making to OSM (similar to the big Microsoft contributions) which are probably there as a way of trying to prevent a Google monopoly, but not indications that Apple is using the data.
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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Doctor_Fegg on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @03:34AM (#18919172)
That’s not true. Apple is using and contributing current, ODbL-licensed OSM data.
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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Brakenshire on Wednesday January 16, 2019 @05:09AM (#18919587)
How does that work? Do you mean using it behind the scenes? I thought ODbL prevented combinations unless the combined dataset could be released.
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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by Doctor_Fegg on Friday January 18, 2019 @06:16AM (#18938526)
It's not as broad as "combinations". In many circumstances that doesn't apply. The OSMF website has guidelines on what needs to be released and what doesn't.
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