#mapservices — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mapservices, aggregated by home.social.
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Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Join Overture Maps To Vie With Apple, Google
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https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/26/meta-microsoft-amazon-join-overture-maps-to-vie-with-apple-google.html <-- shared media article
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https://overturemaps.org/ <-- Overture Maps Foundation home page, part of the Linux Foundation
[I went to a ‘casual’ seminar by the chief engineer at #Overture a few months ago; I was rightly wary of motives, but what he described in my opinion has challenged me – in a good way – to keep an open mind]
“Who is Overture for? Overture is for developers who build map services or use geospatial data…”
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Overture is aiming to establish a baseline for maps data so that companies can use it to build and operate their own maps…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #opendata #opensource #OvertureMaps #conglomerate #apps #mapservices #spatialdata #freedata #OMF
#OvertureMapsFoundation | #LinuxFoundation #gischat
@overturemaps | @linuxfoundation