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Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps by ralfd on Friday September 28, 2012 @09:30PM (#4588550)
Apple uses Open Street Map. See here:

http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/

Adopting/Contributing to the project as their number one mapping foundation would be nice and would have provided them tons of goodwill. But I guess Apple also wants to use OSM together with data from other commercial sources (tomtom).

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Re:A Letter from Tim Cook on Maps by boristhespider on Saturday September 29, 2012 @08:55AM (#4589408)
That applies to the strange, pre–iOS 6 iPhoto-specific map tiles. OSM is acknowledged in the new app's acknowledgements, but so far there are places where the Maps.app is less detailed than the basic OSM database – but no doubt this can and will get better.
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