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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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