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by JohnFen 2709 days ago
Yes, OSM can give truly excellent results for certain areas. And truly awful results for others.
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This applies to all of the mapping providers. It takes a truly massive ground game to get really good map data for the entire world. Many players are working on this and I'm sure many will continue to work on it. A map that was garbage for your area three months ago might be great today.
The same for Apple Maps, except any improvements that go there fall into another closed silo.