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But that's really not what we want from a maps app, issit?
We want intelligent location data like searching for "groceries" and we want to know wherever the location is currently open etc.
While I hope that - eventually - open street map can fill that need, it can't today.
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Furthermore, even if you somehow stopped this sending, both operate multiple network services to help devices establish their location: one bases on devices sending a list of the wifi hotspots they see plus a list of network towers they are connected to, etc. The second service is aGPS, which is a network service that helps devices to locate themselves on the basis of GPS input in a cold start situation.
On Android phones, even if you kick gapps off your phone, it will likely still use aGPS.
I still think it's good to use OSM based apps though, because that brings all the improvements/error corrections from users into OSM instead of some proprietary silo.
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