Did you know that Lyft has an algorithm that detects errors and missing features in OpenStreetMap, fixes them, and then contributes them back to OSM? I certainly didn’t! This article details exactly how they achieve that and how they hope to contribute much larger changes after seeking feedback from the OSM community.
How Lyft Creates Hyper-Accurate Maps from Open-Source Maps and Real-Time Data
By Albert Yuen, James Murphy, Sumanth Ravipati, Deeksha Goyal, Han Kim, Adithya Hemakumar, Milo Han, Alex Ung, Clare Corthell At Lyft, our novel driver localization algorithm detects map errors to…
Lyft Engineering