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I've had a great experience with Apple Maps, which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too) and TomTom. I've found it's accurate enough to just trust it, and it's excellent at detecting and rerouting when I can't do what it wanted me to (eg: traffic in the way, or I just miss the turn.)

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Apple has no official contributions to OSM. We are not even sure in which cases they use the data.

I didn't think Apple Maps gave any data back to OSM, do you have a link? I thought it was just one dump file from a few years ago that they used.

There's a suggestion that Apple is now using current OSM data (the latest Apple Maps copyright notice has ©2014, which it didn't before) but, that said, I've not seen any indication of it here in the UK.

"which are based in part on Open Street Map (giving data back too)"

I know for a fact this isn't true. What was your source for this?

Outside the US, Apple Maps suck ass (I'm sorry, but there's no other way to put it).

It depends on the city. In Melbourne, Australia for example I find Google Maps to be less accurate than Apple Maps. I also found the same in parts of Tokyo.

That is not true, Apple map is better than Google's in China, better than Baidu at navigation even. It uses a local map provider's (amap.com) data of course.

It's also great in Switzerland. And got improved in Serbia. Great for Austria, Italy and Germany. Europe is not that bad. For me way better than Google maps (especially for car navigation)

In my region (Atlantic Canada), OSM is much more detailed, up-to-date, and accurate than Apple maps.

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