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by mtmail 1948 days ago
Strava's map are based on OpenStreetMap, there is attribution in the bottom right corner of every map (not sure where in the mobile app, I'm not an active user).

The parent comment probably talks about giving Strava user uploaded data/tracks back to the OSM community so they improve the map (or add new paths themselves). In a way they already do https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Strava#Data_Permission_-... Allowing tracing is more than other companies offer and gladly accepted. It regularly leads to new unmapped paths discovered, sometimes on private ground (military areas) that are otherwise inaccessable to an OSM mapper.

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>Strava's map are based on OpenStreetMap

yeah, that's what i was saying about the tiles - their tiles come from mapbox, which means they include OSM data and therefore must include the attribution. but the claim was that they're heavily reliant on OSM's trail data, and I just haven't seen any evidence of that.