#overturemaps — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #overturemaps, 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
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The news writes about #OvertureMaps as a Google Maps competitor, but it also will make a free and open source Google invention more useful: Short #OLC / #PlusCodes can probably use the new datasets to fully put the black box myth to rest. (Reverse geocoding without relying on Google. Nominatim already enables this but is big and sluggish)
