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Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage
Not necessarily. The data is out there. I don’t think they could make it a part of the core app for legal reasons, but OsmAnd has a plugin system. Basically anyone could make it other than OsmAnd devs. Distribution could happen over an F-droid repo.
Traffic data?
If a grandmother had a penis, she would be a grandfatherTo implement this function, Osmand should gather location data from every user.Not necessarily. The data is out there. I don’t think they could make it a part of the core app for legal reasons, but OsmAnd has a plugin system. Basically anyone could make it other than OsmAnd devs. Distribution could happen over an F-droid repo.
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Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.
That’s where. But also I wouldn’t be surprised if there are also other sources.
And Google also trusts that data because it’s collected at OS level.
If an open project tried to collect location data they could not trust it. There’s no way to prevent malicious users from sending bogus data.