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Apple initially licensed data primarily from TomTom and also from others. They've been replacing licensed map data with data they gather themselves for over ha

Apple initially licensed data primarily from TomTom and also from others. They've been replacing licensed map data with data they gather themselves for over half a decade now. So far, their own data covers North America, Europe, Australia as well as a few countries elsewhere. 35 countries so far. 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... https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-expansions-current-coverage-areas https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps-expansions-curr...

lern_too_spel 3y ago
No. GP is right. Apple Maps was originally created from a dump of Openstreetmap data. Apple then collected its own data to build its own maps from scratch and contributed none of that back. It used, and still uses, TomTom for traffic incident data. https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html
- GeekyBear 3y ago
  Nope. They may also use TomTom for traffic incident data, but their primary data source for map data at release was TomTom. > The main provider of map data is TomTom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps > contributed none of that back OpenStreetMap seems to think that Apple contributes both tools and data. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple Almost all of the large tech companies with a mapping product contribute data to OpenStreetMap, with Google being the sole exception that I'm aware of. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google
  - lern_too_spel 3y ago
    > OpenStreetMap seems to think that Apple contributes both tools and data. Like I said, they contributed nothing from the maps they created from scratch back, only corrections to OpenStreetmap while they were using it.

lern_too_spel 3y ago

No. GP is right. Apple Maps was originally created from a dump of Openstreetmap data. Apple then collected its own data to build its own maps from scratch and contributed none of that back. It used, and still uses, TomTom for traffic incident data. https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html https://gspe21-ssl.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html

GeekyBear 3y ago
Nope. They may also use TomTom for traffic incident data, but their primary data source for map data at release was TomTom. > The main provider of map data is TomTom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Maps > contributed none of that back OpenStreetMap seems to think that Apple contributes both tools and data. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple Almost all of the large tech companies with a mapping product contribute data to OpenStreetMap, with Google being the sole exception that I'm aware of. https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Google
- lern_too_spel 3y ago
  > OpenStreetMap seems to think that Apple contributes both tools and data. Like I said, they contributed nothing from the maps they created from scratch back, only corrections to OpenStreetmap while they were using it.