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by pwg 1357 days ago
> now it’s horribly outdated. It shows several stores in my street that have closed over 6 years ago

OSM is mostly volunteers, and if no one has happened by on your street in the last 6 years, then no one has noticed to update the map.

> I actually found StreetComplete a few days ago and have started fixing issues, at least for my neighborhood.

This is the expected outcome, locals fixing local issues. Given a sufficient amount of that, and you have a better map than googles offering. Of course, as you discovered, if no one is around to make the fixes, the data also goes stale.