<story><title>Are Apple &apos;stealing&apos; Open Street Map data?</title><url>http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/apple-maps-aka-apple-are-thieving-bastards/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rmc</author><text>More details from OSMF &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/&lt;/a&gt; ( and HN submission &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3679604&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3679604&lt;/a&gt; )</text></comment>
<story><title>Are Apple &apos;stealing&apos; Open Street Map data?</title><url>http://alastaira.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/apple-maps-aka-apple-are-thieving-bastards/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sambeau</author><text>Confirmed (but no mention of stealing):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.osmfoundation.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.osmfoundation.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;though there is this:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &quot;It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s
   contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get
   that on there.&quot;
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I guess there is an outside possibility that both teams are using the same Ordinance Survey Data (although this seems unlikely now that the OSM Foundation has chimed in, I suspect they would have checked this before announcing Apple&apos;s welcome).</text></comment>