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by lukeqsee 2709 days ago
I believe Apple at least augments their data with OSM data; however, I suspect the primary driver of this decision was price.

Edit: request are succeeding for me now.
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mtmail 2709 days ago
Apple employee spoke at a recent OSM conference. Yes, they use OSM data as well. In some countries more than others. Apple also has a fulltime staff working on OSM. https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues, https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
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Brakenshire 2709 days ago
Apple can only use OSM data pre license change which is very old now, those links are to contributions Apple is making to OSM (similar to the big Microsoft contributions) which are probably there as a way of trying to prevent a Google monopoly, but not indications that Apple is using the data.
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Doctor_Fegg 2709 days ago
That’s not true. Apple is using and contributing current, ODbL-licensed OSM data.
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Brakenshire 2709 days ago
How does that work? Do you mean using it behind the scenes? I thought ODbL prevented combinations unless the combined dataset could be released.
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Doctor_Fegg 2707 days ago
It's not as broad as "combinations". In many circumstances that doesn't apply. The OSMF website has guidelines on what needs to be released and what doesn't.
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