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Re:Google Decides to Monetize Maps by londons_explore on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:17AM (#19697456)
OSM is used underlying a lot of commercial apps and services.

Most people don't realise that though, so they think their edits correcting roads will only get seen by a handful of open source geeks.

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Re:Google Decides to Monetize Maps by alasdair_ on Wednesday April 24, 2019 @12:18PM (#19739931)
Agreed. For example Pokemon GO uses it - which is why there was a large influx of new users, prompting the following guidelines page: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2016/12/30/tips-pokemon-go/
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