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Traffic data? If a grandmother had a penis, she would be a grandfather To 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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the data is out there

Where? GMaps sources this data from each of its users.

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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.

That’s where. But also I wouldn’t be surprised if there are also other sources.

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