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.
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.
OSM is very strict about verifiability of data. It is speculated that Overture is (because it also uses OSM data) meant to contain a lot more data that isn’t as strictly verifiable. Think AI generated building footprints.
Ah, that’s actually pretty cool if it’s sufficiently open. OSM is pretty lacking where I am, and I know, I can contribute to it, but I really don’t have the capacity to figure that all out right now.