[OSM-talk] Bad (wrong?) OSM publicity?

[maning sambale]

For reference:

Shinjuku in iOS6 Maps -
http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/31930288525/shinjuku-station-the-busiest-train-station-in-the
in OSM - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.689408&lon=139.700825&zoom=18&layers=M

I don't think Apple's Maps is using OSM.

In addition, they also didn't use OSM in the Philippines.

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Pēteris Krišjānis <pecisk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sounds like nice smear from competition, except it can be truth and
> wrong in same time - it's very old data, first, it's not all OSM.
>
> Nice try tough.
>
>
> Peter.
>
> P , 2012-09-24 23:32 -0600, Martijn van Exel rakstīja:
>> From https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/technology/apple-maps-errors-send-japanese-to-homegrown-app.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y&_r=0moc.semityn.www
>>
>> "The biggest problem with Apple’s map, Mapion’s Mr. Yamagishi said, is
>> that much of its data appears to be drawn from OpenStreetMap Japan, a
>> Wikipedia-like service that contains a lot of incorrect and outdated
>> information."
>>
>> 1) Is Apple using OSM data for Japan?
>> 2) If they are, I can't believe this is a correct statement.
>>
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