On: Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap

[Gigachad]

I highly suspect Apple and Google maps are auto tracing satellite images. Apple maps has perfect coverage of every road marking on their maps that exactly lines up to the satellite images.

I believe most consumers of OSM just discard data like buildings and crosswalks and layer on top auto traced data which has 100% coverage.

[johanyc → Gigachad]

> I highly suspect Apple and Google maps are auto tracing satellite images.

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

they have been doing it for years.

[RobotToaster → Gigachad]

One of the weaknesses of OSM is not requiring consumers to contribute back data like that.