I’ve used nothing but Apple maps for the last 3-4 years. Previously I heavily used Gmaps, OpenStreetMap and Waze. The issue with the commercial maps was that they undoubtedly would sell my data or do other horrible shit with it. OSM was janky, so I only use that when I walk around. That left me with Apple maps, which has had a bad rep for a while. I tried it and realised that the interface looks great, the actual maps are good now, I can share my ETA with people, and most of all it’s native to the phone! Another great benefit is that Apple won’t necessarily sell my tracking data. Or if they choose to, it’s nothing more than they would already have from me using the phone anyway.
I’ll be clearer: The app front-end for OSM was jank (on iOS in 2018). Apple maps does have a marker to show that “OSM and other providers” have contributed to the data. There is also a logo for ‘tomtom’.
