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I was under the impression that Apple did make use of Open Street Maps. http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/11/3078987/apple-tomtom-openstreemap-ios-6-maps-app http

• grey-area 14y ago
  They're not using OSM data most of the time, I suspect it's just for a small amount of data - the OSM credit is a tiny one amongst a whole load of others on their credits page for the maps app. http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html http://gspa21.ls.apple.com/html/attribution.html It's not clear exactly where they get all the data, and what is used where, but simple searches like Paddington Station are not working (Paddington does, but not Paddington Station), and I'm sure they're not using the OSM vector data (in the UK at least) as it differs and is less complete than OSM in rural areas for example. It would be interesting to know just how they've put their datasets together and what they used from where, but it looks like they use tomtom map data in the UK (along with Yelp places, and perhaps Royal Mail addresses/postcodes).