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Re:We’re 10 today by keehun on Saturday August 09, 2014 @12:10PM (#8157181)
There are a few power users of OSM. Like, MapQuest and FourSquare. However, either of those have neither the detailed information of Google/Bing nor their popularity, so I see your point.
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Re:We’re 10 today by maxerickson on Saturday August 09, 2014 @12:35PM (#8157247)
Foursquare doesn't use OSM for places:

https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/venues

I guess Google is doing their own thing, Bing is listed as using Factual:

http://factual.com/

(Along with Yelp, Trulia, GroupOn, others).

Facebook is also in the business of having a landing page for every semi interesting place (I think this is one of the things that drove Google to push Google+ so hard).

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Re:We’re 10 today by frewsxcv on Saturday August 09, 2014 @12:32PM (#8157235)
From my experiences, OSM road/track data far surpasses Google Maps or Bing. What I find it lacks is good POI data, like restaurants, stores, etc.
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Re:We’re 10 today by __Joker on Saturday August 09, 2014 @12:20PM (#8157203)
Not going into details, I was/am working on map related data. And still using OSM. And would love to see OSM take off.
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