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Google maps with its massive places data set is just too good. It’s expensive but I find it is always consistently up to date and mostly reliable. Have found some bugs with the places api which I reported, such as it not working for some queries which are off by 0.001 lat/lng

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Of course Google is going to be more up to date and complete for POIs when these POIs need customers to survive and customers use Google search to find info. Google uses its monopoly in the search market to also become dominant in the geo data market. There's no competing with a hundred million shop owners contributing and updating their own data.

Hiking trails and other more niche things, though. Compare the data quality there :)

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