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Apple Maps uses data from OpenStreetMap, so shouldn't it be as good (or bad) as OSM is? On Android, try OrganicMaps. It's a fork of the Maps.me OSM client by th
by aorth 5y ago
Apple Maps uses data from OpenStreetMap, so shouldn't it be as good (or bad) as OSM is? On Android, try OrganicMaps. It's a fork of the Maps.me OSM client by the original devs. It's good, but then again I've made thousands of edits to OSM around my city so that's part of it!
- yosito 5y agoI use OrganicMaps. It's fine for road maps and addresses when I have the number. But there's very little up to date local business information. I use maps apps like people used to use phone books. But OSM data just isn't suitable for that in most places.
- habi 5y agoYou can add the missing data yourself (with OrganicMaps), then everyone can profit from it!
- szastamasta 5y agoHmm, I think they are licensing their data from TomTom. Not from OSM.
- toast0 5y agoI'm not super familiar with Apple Maps, but it's common to use a mix of data. OSM may provide the base, but Apple almost certainly has done their own search indexing and may be curating business info from other sources and user reports. Or they may be using OSM in some places and other sources in other places.
- galad87 5y agoThe new revamped maps being rolled out are made by Apple. I guess the older one was as good as OpenStreetMap and TomTom.
- wodenokoto 5y agoUses, doesn’t mean use exclusively. All map providers use osm as a data source.
- Doctor_Fegg 5y agoExcept Google.
- virtualritz 5y agoWhen I worked at HERE, until late 2018, it was company policy not to use any OSM data at all. HERE, along Apple, Google and TomTom, is one of the four companies in the world that create original digital map data, from scratch, on a planet spanning scale.
- matkoniecz 5y agoNote that OpenStreetMap project also collects data on a global scale (and actually better than HERE in most aspects). And technically it is company (in UK law sense, not in "a commercial project" sense)