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Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset – Overture Maps Foundation

cross-posted from: 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.

MapleSoda ,
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Are there any apps using the dataset as yet, I don’t see any recommended in the article…

ijeff OP ,
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It seems to be pretty early days, with them looking to solicit public feedback via the GitHub.

Blaze ,

Why don’t just use openstreetmap

ijeff OP ,
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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 ,

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

Blaze ,

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

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