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by customer123 5015 days ago
The article says Apple Maps is using OSM data. Is the article wrong? Or is there something they left out?
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Looking at the maps for Japan on OSM and iOS 6, if they are using OSM data it must be a very small subset and they're adding a ton of crap over it.

For example: they usually have one label for a train/subway station which is well placed and then a second label for the same station 200m to the south-east. OSM has nothing like this. They must be cobbling many datasets together with no fact-checking...

To what degree are they using it? Not a large one.