Oh, didn't know that.

In russian version they did very user-friendly editor for their maps called "People's map" and they already show it in their mobile apps. Of course, from licensing perspective, OSM is much better.

cartography usually means the look and.style of a map. I think you mean the data (or geodata or however one wants to call it).

The relevancy of that depends on what the motivation for declaring OSM the only non-US map.

If it's with reference to NSA (one can only guess, but that seems to be in line with the times), that you won't get tracked, it's irrelevant where the map was made, as long as the map servers are operated outside the US.

Navteq is part of Nokia. And Nokia Here [1], their maps service (used by MS, Yandex, etc), is actually mostly divided between offices in Germany and the US.

[1] http://www.nokia.com/global/about-nokia/about-us/our-structu...

Edit: added a reference to Nokia's company structure.