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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by lern_too_spel on Friday January 19, 2024 @10:26AM (#39056619)
No. GP is right. Apple Maps was originally created from a dump of Openstreetmap data. Apple then collected its own data to build its own maps from scratch and contributed none of that back. It used, and still uses, TomTom for traffic incident data. https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html
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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by GeekyBear on Friday January 19, 2024 @10:49AM (#39056842)
Nope. They may also use TomTom for traffic incident data, but their primary data source for map data at release was TomTom.

> The main provider of map data is TomTom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps

> contributed none of that back

OpenStreetMap seems to think that Apple contributes both tools and data.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple

Almost all of the large tech companies with a mapping product contribute data to OpenStreetMap, with Google being the sole exception that I'm aware of.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google

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Re:YouTube and Spotify won't launch Apple Vision Pro apps, j... by lern_too_spel on Saturday January 20, 2024 @09:21PM (#39074869)
> OpenStreetMap seems to think that Apple contributes both tools and data.

Like I said, they contributed nothing from the maps they created from scratch back, only corrections to OpenStreetmap while they were using it.

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