I’ve been messing around with Magic Earth and Organic Maps recently.
I immediately noticed that when I type a home address in Magic Earth, the app can take me to the exact house on the block.
However, when I type the same home address in Organic Maps, the app can only take me to the street where the house is. It can find the exact house.
Why is this the case? I thought both Magic Earth and Organic Maps used the same map data behind the scenes…
I tried looking up the address on https://osm.org/ , but it’s not there either. The results from https://osm.org/ seem to match Organic Maps.
So Magic Earth uses other sources without attribution? It’s possible the address comes from a public domain source, so they don’t have to attribute. But in that case that data could be imported to osm as well.
Or they pay for another source. I never met such a thing there yet.