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Is there any way to import Apple Maps roads into OSM for editing purposes? Or overlay them?

I’m trying to create a roundabout. It shows up on Apple Maps, but the satellite images haven’t been updated yet. So I’m having a hard time drawing it on the web editor.

Thanks!

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No way to copy data from Apple, Google, … for license reasons.
We’re not allowed to do so.

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Are you able to provide the osm url of the junction?

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Apple is a very different case than Google, as they are publicly using OpenStreetMap data (although I do not think the whole of it is released under the ODbL, guess they are using a collective database, the details would be interesting)

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Maybe Apple is a different case, but using OSM data does not necessarily imply that the derived (and enriched) data is, as input data, compatible with OSM.

So, I would not use any Apple data.

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IIRC Apple Maps is OSM data in large parts of the world anyway. :slightly_smiling_face:

But remember one of the Rules of OSM: “Don’t copy from other maps (unless you know it’s explicilty allowed)”

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presuming that Apple does attribute as required, it appears to me that there is a shortcoming with the current situation: we don’t know exactly which parts are from OpenStreetMap or contain OpenStreetMap data in a derivative database, so we can not exercise our rights based on the ODbL (regional extract, thematic extract)

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Why would we want to know that anyway? There’s no use in foreign data if we already have it, anyway.

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err, because of share alike provisions?