MTmtmail·Jul 25, 2024
https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues is where you can give feedback to Apple‘s OSM mapping team. There’s one thread per country
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17 sourcesApple has full-time employees contributing to openstreetmap https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues
In Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch Overture Foundation for open map dataYou can report data issues at https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/149 (Montenegro) https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/148 (Albania)
In Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)Apple does contribute to OSM quite a bit, see around 4:00 in https://2020.stateofthemap.org/sessions/SPRQVZ/ for details of corporate contributions: "Apple is currently doing the most work on the map".
Here is the base repository of their contributions on GitHub: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata
And if I see this correctly, the #adt hashtag (for Apple Data Team) contains already +100000 changesets for this year alone: https://osmcha.org/?filters=%7B%22comment%22%3A%5B%7B%22labe...
In OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US citiesApple has an active team editing OpenStreetMap and their maps use OSM data in many countries. I see them making edits in my country regularly (they tag changesets with “#adt” so they’re quite visible). More info on the OSM wiki and their GitHub repo:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple
https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
In Openstreetmap’s product fails to compete with Google MapsI don't have any insight into how they are choosing, but they are investing in improving OpenStreetMap in many places:
https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues
In Apple’s New Map, Expansion #7: Final Parts of the Continental U.S.To get a small glimpse into Apple Maps work, there is a public github repo coordinating work https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/148
In Ask HN: How was Google maps made?Also OpenStreetMap and actively improving OSM data around the world https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues/154
In Apple's New Map: Midwest and Western U.S.Apple Maps does utilize and contribute to OSM data to some degree:
https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
In DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple MapsThey do invest in improving the project https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
In DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple MapsApple does pay people to make edits to OSM: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
In Google gives Wikimedia millionsApple doesn't contribute back? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18913408
> Apple employee spoke at a recent OSM conference. Yes, they use OSM data as well. In some countries more than others. Apple also has a fulltime staff working on OSM. https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues, https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
In Google gives Wikimedia millionsApple employee spoke at a recent OSM conference. Yes, they use OSM data as well. In some countries more than others. Apple also has a fulltime staff working on OSM. https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues, https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/
In DuckDuckGo will use Apple MapsFun fact: they do! https://github.com/osmlab/appledata
e.g. https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2018-May/0...
> * I work for Apple’s Maps team. We are interested in doing some fixes and improvements to inland water features in Australia on OSM, such as adding and improving geometry of polygons for lakes and wide rivers, fixing broken relations, and correcting alignment issues for inland features when they meet the coast.*
> Atlas [1], a tool Apple created for querying, visualizing, and storing OpenStreetMap data.
> Data Improvement Projects [2] being worked on by the Apple Data Team.
> Building Footprint Data [3] that Apple is sharing.
[1]: https://github.com/osmlab/atlas
[2]: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues
[3]: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/blob/master/BUILDINGS.md
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