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> Not that Apple Maps, like Google Maps, pulls in data volunteered by the OSM... then locks it away You have that backwards, at least for some companies. > H
by GeekyBear 3y ago
> Not that Apple Maps, like Google Maps, pulls in data volunteered by the OSM... then locks it away
You have that backwards, at least for some companies.
> How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are contributing to OSM
At the State of the Map conference in Milan, the teams from Microsoft, Apple and Facebook presented their projects, describing how they are working with communities.
https://www.theodi.org/article/how-are-facebook-apple-and-microsoft-contributing-to-openstreetmap/ https://www.theodi.org/article/how-are-facebook-apple-and-mi...
I've never seen any cite for Google contributing their data to OSM.
- 29083011397778 3y ago> You have that backwards, at least for some companies Absolutely I do - my overall (and apparently poorly communicated) point was more about Apple pulling in data from OSM to improve their product. They (and others) do contribute back, I only meant it's hardly coincidental that OSM and Apple Maps improved around the same time. > I've never seen any cite for Google contributing their data to OSM. This is what I'm so up-in-arms about: people spend so much time adding to Google Maps for free (not even necessarily via OSM), to be locked away behind paid (past a limit) API calls. Perhaps I should have been more explicit in that many companies contribute back, and Google being an outlier in that.
- GeekyBear 3y ago> it's hardly coincidental that OSM and Apple Maps improved around the same time True, but in Apple's case, the massive improvements stemmed from no longer relying solely on data licensed from others, and starting a program back in 2018 to collect their own map data from scratch. https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-f...