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shakow 71 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: John Ternus to become Apple CEO

In the Balkans, both Apple Maps and Google Maps are completely lost.

I frequently drive through Serbia/Bulgaria/Montenegro/Macedonia, and if you ever do, do yourself a favor and install something OpenStreetMap-based.

Otherwise, you will be missing new motorways, get thrown on unpaved roads, or even asked to drive on roads that just do not exist anymore.

rafram 71 days ago [–]

Apple Maps uses OSM data in many countries.

shakow 71 days ago | [–]

Obviously not in these then. Do you know which ones?

rafram 71 days ago | | [–]

No, and as far as I know, they don't say. But a lot of their not-direct-from-OSM map data comes from TomTom, which also ingests OSM. There's a lot of OSM in Apple Maps, as there is in most other non-Googly mapping apps.

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