OSM vs Google Maps Licensing

I'd assume the main reason is because they require you to credit them when you're using their data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright

Cant google use OSM data? It looks like the license is pretty liberal.

Essentially if Google use OSM and they improve/add to the map, then they have to release that data. They don't have to release, say, search data.

I'm pretty sure map data is expensive and those companies license it.

OpenStreetMap folks just care about the data, I doubt anyone would begrudge someone making a proprietary service using open data - it's the data that's important, after all. The OSM Project is not looking to replace Google My Maps, or to have such a service on the main osm.org website.Now, what you are looking for is probably something along the lines of uMap http://wiki.openstreetmap.org&

Open street map's license allows anyone to use their data, but if you "build upon" their data then you must release your version with the same license. Google maps would not be able to incorporate OSM's licensed data to their own data without releasing their own proprietary data freely as well, which they aren't willing to do.

All the map data of google is public, it's probably been copied/vectorized/etc, add some errors to it, remove some streets, shift the street a meter or two, you got a comparable service. Probably google has a lot of checksums in there to see if it's their data you're drawing, but since maps is almost an essential service I don't think they can abruptly remove it without consequences, one of which would be to allow a new service even on stolen data.

Google and Apple are both free to use OSM data (which is of course copyrighted). But the don't want to because they can't abide by the license terms.

The author probably would have been a lot better/quicker off using OpenStreetMap, not to mention he would then not be breaking Google TOS.

How can google maps monetize when openstreetmaps exists?