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My thought exactly -- why not contribute to OpenStreetMap?
Steering members: Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, TomTom. They won't contribute to OSM because they don't want map data to be free for everyone; they just don't like Google and Apple being in charge of it.
So they actually are contributing / complementing OSM:
From the FAQs on their site.
Aha, I see that now, too.
It’s kinda funny; everywhere I saw this posted had the same initial comments, “what about OSM?” Which I think is natural and good skepticism.
Hopefully, they keep true to their word instead of creating the same problem.