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Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset – Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org)
submitted 1 year ago by ijeff@lemdro.id to c/technology@beehaw.org
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cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/190707

The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) is a collaborative effort by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom "to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products". This is their first open map dataset.

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[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why don't just use openstreetmap

[–] ijeff@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mentioned it in the lemdro.id thread but forgot to add it here!

I'd just also make a plug for OpenStreetMap, which is entirely community-driven and based on fully open data.

With that said, OpenStreetMap can be hit and miss in a lot of areas. The aim here looks to be about having something commercial-grade that isn't from Google or TomTom. It would've been nice to see companies get together to support OpenStreetMap though.

[–] singinwhale@lmy.singinwhale.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OSM is one of the sources for this and apparently the plan is for this dataset to feed back into OSM as well

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Looking at this thread, it's not so sure: https://lemmy.ml/post/2466378?scrollToComments=true