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> more eyes seeing OSM and more companies caring about its quality cannot be understated. (I can point to dozens of examples of this.)

I'd love to hear more about that

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I doubt what I saw will really add to what Doctor_Fegg says in his talk. However, a few examples:

https://daylightmap.org is built by Meta (Facebook) to allow their maps to meet their quality needs consistently while still pulling and encouraging OSM updates. This unlocks OSM data for a large amount of sensitive corporations.

I personally have made quite a few edits on behalf of customers who pointed out errors in the map.

The popularity of OSM-based navigation apps has made it useful for people to download editing apps to ensure their locale is as up-to-date as possible (this is getting better and better every year).

> Some of these contributions may have intentional and unintentional edits that are incompatible with our use cases. Our mapping teams work to scrub these contributions for consistency and quality. In the course of this work, we also build additional tools and technologies on top of OSM to increase mapping speed, and more importantly, drive a higher level of detail, quality and accuracy on the map.

So it's like OSM "stable"?

That's not a bad one-word description. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6k78gxozZw - my keynote from this year's OpenStreetMap conference basically talks about exactly that.

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