Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by wizzwizz4 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @06:36PM
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Apple Maps has been OpenStreetMap for years.
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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by izacus on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:24AM
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No, Apple is USING OpenStreetMap which is a different thing - they pulled the data but haven't contributed much back as they're building their own proprietary backend.
Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by habi on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:46AM
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Apple does contribute to OSM quite a bit, see around 4:00 in https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/ for details of corporate contributions: "Apple is currently doing the most work on the map".
Here is the base repository of their contributions on GitHub: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata
And if I see this correctly, the #adt hashtag (for Apple Data Team) contains already +100000 changesets for this year alone: https://osmcha.org/?filters=%7B%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22labe...
Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by petre on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:04AM
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They also pay Kaart to do it, so most if not all of the Kaart contributions are paid for by Apple.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple#Contributions_thro...
Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by kccqzy on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:43PM
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Apple's old map was OpenStreetMap plus other sources but its new ones are proprietary. But its new ones are only available in the US, UK, Canada and Ireland.
Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by jonas21 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:56PM
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I believe the old map was mostly TomTom (TeleAtlas) with a little bit of other sources sprinkled in.
Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U...
by balp on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @12:26AM
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Yes, more TomTom that openstreetmap, that was clearly show by the dataquality. Much less walk and vike information. If you don't drive a car all my sampling say OSM is way better.