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by lucb1e 991 days ago
How would you handle corrections? Surely Google's API doesn't let you submit changes, and it's not like their data is infallible. Particularly for things like whether a place has AC, I wouldn't even know if Google collects that data in the first place.

OSM has tags for a lot of things, you get the data at cost price (that is, you can keep a local copy for free and serve your own queries, or contract some third party that hosts an API like overpass-turbo for you), and so does everyone else when you contribute back.