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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.
Blaze ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) English7•11 months agoWhy don’t just use openstreetmap
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 ( @singinwhale@lmy.singinwhale.com ) English2•11 months agoOSM is one of the sources for this and apparently the plan is for this dataset to feed back into OSM as well
Blaze ( @Blaze@sopuli.xyz ) English1•11 months agoLooking at this thread, it’s not so sure: https://lemmy.ml/post/2466378?scrollToComments=true