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> Also, Apple makes an absolute mess when contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. For example, their contributors make any informal / illegal shortcut part o
by diggan 2y ago
> Also, Apple makes an absolute mess when contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. For example, their contributors make any informal / illegal shortcut part of a residential street when it isn't.
This would be very bad, where are you getting this from? That their own maps implementation doesn't work outside of Chrome/Safari doesn't sound nearly as bad as if they're damaging an entire ecosystem like that.
- botanical 2y agoI contribute to OSM, and I've seen it in my own local town. It's not so much nefarious as it is negligent. They don't have local knowledge, see a satellite image of what seems like a road and decide it connects to existing residential roads. If you spend time on it, you'll notice it too as it was common enough for me to notice it.
- diggan 2y agoYou have any concrete examples of this happening you could link to?
- gunapologist99 2y agoProbably not without self-doxxing.
- a2128 2y agoI found this after scrolling through the linked GitHub issues where they overwrite local surveyed data with an interpretation based on satellite imagery: https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109846534 https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/109846534
- mtmail 2y agohttps://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues is where you can give feedback to Apple‘s OSM mapping team. There’s one thread per country
- dwaite 2y agoDo you have reference to this being based on an Apple change and based on analysis of satellite images?