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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Why don’t just use openstreetmap
I mentioned it in the lemdro.id thread but forgot to add it here!
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.
OSM is one of the sources for this and apparently the plan is for this dataset to feed back into OSM as well
Looking at this thread, it’s not so sure: https://lemmy.ml/post/2466378?scrollToComments=true
Are there any apps using the dataset as yet, I don’t see any recommended in the article…
It seems to be pretty early days, with them looking to solicit public feedback via the GitHub.