@potet said in UT and maps program/GPS in the USA.:
GPS providers
Not here to correct anything, just to share
The GPS providers are providing the GPS chips in our phones.
For cartography, you there are several providers for:
maps (vector data representing features: roads, buildings, etc.)
tiles (the visual components of maps).
geocodes (names for features like addresses or road names which allows to search something in a map)
The first one is served by OSM, the second one is usually a third party service provider and the last one can be nominatim which is a services provided by OSM but can also be part of the third party provider.
Navigation is another service that third party can offer and is able to resolve how to join two different locations.
Hope it can help someone to figure things out or better understand this complex world.