"It’s also missing the necessary credit to OpenStreetMap’s
contributors; we look forward to working with Apple to get
that on there."
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's welcome).
OSM does not use Ordinance Survey Data. (OS has started allowing some tracing). The data matches up all over the world, not just the UK (OS only has detailed maps of UK).
It's OSM data.
As for references of "stealing", remember don't attribute to malice what can easily be explained by incompetance.
Incompetence doesn't change what this is. Simply describes the manner in which it was done. Incompetent "stealing" or malicious "stealing", it's still "stealing."
* Stealing is very much the wrong word here, but I don't know if this falls under copyright infringement or something else.
It's very easy to finde the OSM Licence and even easier to understand that the most important they ask for is to be properly credited. Whoever green lighted this over at Apple is going to have a very bad day.
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/
though there is this:
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's welcome).