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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.
I think this is relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/
I guess OSM is too open for them? Or maybe OSM didn’t want to give in to corporate demands.