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by uolmir 703 days ago
I think the author probably exaggerates her point a bit (fair enough; she's an opinion writer), but I do find it appealing to imagine that OpenStreetMap would have broad buy-in and would lead to more innovation and diversity in the digital maps marketplace.
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I wish OSM would build and provide native mobile apps that are at parity with Apple and Google Maps; I would pay for them to vertically integrate.
OpenStreetMap does not provide native apps, but there are plenty of (navigation) apps that provide routing based on OpenStreetMap data, my favorites being https://www.magicearth.com/ for car navigation, https://cycle.travel/ for bicycle touring and https://organicmaps.app/ for everything else (also completely offline).

There’s a bunch of different apps to use for bunch of different use cases: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...