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Magic Earth has traffic and uses OSM data. It's closed source, but they seem to be one of the better map/navigation companies when it comes to privacy.
Their live traffic data's comes not from OSM. It is not publicly known what their source is for this data.
They say they use crowdsourced data, presumably from users, then "send it to a provider" to combine with other data. Not ideal, but (hopefully) not Google. LOL
I don't think you can have in-house live traffic data without having many million active users. But it would be nice!
Yeah, I know magic earth but as you said, it's closed source. Also it's only a navigation app. You can't easily search and browse restaurants, like with organic maps or Google maps. Not intuitively at least. So you would still need a second app for that.