[uolmir]

I think the author probably exaggerates her point a bit (fair enough; she's an opinion writer), but I do find it appealing to imagine that OpenStreetMap would have broad buy-in and would lead to more innovation and diversity in the digital maps marketplace.

[toomuchtodo]

I wish OSM would build and provide native mobile apps that are at parity with Apple and Google Maps; I would pay for them to vertically integrate.

[habi]

OpenStreetMap does not provide native apps, but there are plenty of (navigation) apps that provide routing based on OpenStreetMap data, my favorites being https://www.magicearth.com/ for car navigation, https://cycle.travel/ for bicycle touring and https://organicmaps.app/ for everything else (also completely offline).

There’s a bunch of different apps to use for bunch of different use cases: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_servic...