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by KolmogorovComp 1049 days ago
Tangential, but does someone knows which data Apple map uses, and at which frequency it’s updated? It’s plainly outdated by some months for some streets of my city, but unable to report it directly via the app, so wondering if fixing OSM would have the same effect (I’ve not yet checked if the errors are also on OSM)
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Seems there is a bunch of different sources, but mainly TomTom:

> The main provider of map data is TomTom, but data is also supplied by Automotive Navigation Data, Getchee, Hexagon AB, IGN, Increment P, Intermap Technologies, LeadDog, MDA Information Systems, OpenStreetMap, and Waze.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160118101039/http://gspe21.ls.... (Original: http://gspe21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution-8.html)

The data Apple uses depends on the country. In Denmark, for example, it's OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap asked Apple what it would take for them to use OpenStreetMap elsewhere. "Make it the best data there."