50 ms·
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
by 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.