appledata
eraser-map
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appledata
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How does Apple Maps get away with using OSM data?
Apple does quite a lot of improvements on OpenStreetMap: https://github.com/osmlab/appledata
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Are you interested in places and maps? You're invited to #OSM18!
And, they also have a data team that contribute to OpenStreetMap!
- Apple Maps' Acceleration
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OpenStreetMap proven to be a highly accurate map in top US cities
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...
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Why Openstreetmap as a product fails to compete with Google Maps – part 1/3
Apple 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/
eraser-map
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Why Openstreetmap as a product fails to compete with Google Maps – part 1/3
(Former Mapzen employee here).
I _think_ you're talking about Eraser Map(https://github.com/mapzen/eraser-map) right?
It was awesome! It's the closest I know of to "Google Maps, but open source and based on open data". It was an app built for _end users_, not OSM editors. And it worked pretty darn well. When it didn't, any problems could (at least theoretically) be addressed with improvements to OSM data or the Mapzen open-source projects.
There was a team of at least two people working on it full time, plus lots of work on the design, product, and integration with geocoding, routing, transit etc. The multi-modal (switching from walking to transit to car, etc) transit directions were particularly awesome.
I used it as my daily driver for much of my navigation around NYC, and as time went on only had to fall back to Google Maps maybe 25% of the time, usually for missing POI data.
Unfortunately I think it's one of the few Mapzen projects that hasn't seen new life after the company shut down, and like you said it would take quite a bit of work (read: money) to keep it going. It might be possible with some work to find grant money through a couple organizations. The OSMF has done some awesome work lately with the micro-grants, but this would definitely be a level we haven't seen (yet).
What are some alternatives?
Geoadmin - Source code of map.geo.admin.ch. Managed by geoadmin/infra-terraform-github-bgdi
osmscout-server - Maps server providing tiles, geocoder, and router
StreetComplete - Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android
osmand_map_creation - OSM data + open address data compiled for use in OSMAnd
vtm - OpenGL vector map library - running on Android, iOS, Desktop and browser.
omim - 🗺️ MAPS.ME — Offline OpenStreetMap maps for iOS and Android
openstreetmap-tile-server - Docker file for a minimal effort OpenStreetMap tile server
StreetComplete - Easy to use OpenStreetMap editor for Android [Moved to: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete]