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  • You seem to have fundamentally misunderstood what OSM is, OSM is not a platform like google maps.

    The core OSM project is just an open database of geographical data, of what exists in real life. Things like navigation and satellite imagery are not part of this, that’s something separate that you add ontop of OSM.
    And as part of the “open” part, any data added must be compatible with the odbl license, which means sources must first be verified as compatible, so any imports of government databases are oftentimes simply not legally possible and even if they are it’s something you have to do quasi-manually since it’s probably in a completely different format.

    No one is talking about this because to anyone familiar with OSM this stuff is so obvious that they forget it isn’t obvious to anyone else.