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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 (#26086738)
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.
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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by habi on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:46AM (#26087261)
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...

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Re:OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top U... by petre on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @06:04AM (#26087717)
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...

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