#overturemaps — Public Fediverse posts
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@geonews Do you know if #OvertureMaps #GERS ID are already entering in #OpenStreetMap data ? I would expect so, but I'm not sure what tag to search for. Taginfo counts 61 ref:gers entries, which I find remarkably low: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/ref%3Agers.
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@simon @linuxfoundation Does that matter if the processed data is open? You have the choice of using the raw data from #osm or the processed data from #overturemaps which may include other sources as well
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Checking in from the #OGC @opengeospatial member meeting in Goyang, South Korea. Here for #DGGS. Side info #OvertureMaps is a principal member now and Bentley has acquired Cesium 3d globe software
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My recent project Surprise Date Spot uses #openstreetmap to find every restaurant across the planet. When I was creating this project I wondered if #overturemaps could provide better data, but didn't find much in the way of quantitative comparison between the two.
So I decided to do my own analysis by looking at 100 random restaurants from each dataset. Here's how they compare:
https://surprisedatespot.com/blog/comparing-overture-osm-restaurants/
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The categories for 2024’s #30DayMapChallenge are finally out!
https://30daymapchallenge.com/
It seems the categories depart just a little bit more from the usual types of challenges in past years.
3 categories give me some pause though: “AI only” (day 9), “Collaborative map” (day 17), and “Overture” (day 29). I’ll probably do an anti-AI map for day 9. Day 17 won’t be smooth sailing since I prefer working on my own. And I am quite critical of #OvertureMaps if you haven’t noticed.
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Great conversation on the #geomobpod with @Mprioleau about #OvertureMaps https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-253
Hardcore OSM contributors may not be happy but it seems to me that OMF is creating a dataset that some users will prefer. Have a listen and let me know what you think
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@unknowing8343 #TomTom uses #OrbisMaps which seems to be part of #OvertureMaps.
The #AmiGO app uses data from OSM, among others.
I also think that data from Overture is already being used there, as pretty much all POIs can be found there. -
@unknowing8343 #TomTom uses #OrbisMaps which seems to be part of #OvertureMaps.
The #AmiGO app uses data from OSM, among others.
I also think that data from Overture is already being used there, as pretty much all POIs can be found there. -
If I understood BigQuery or Dekart this looks like it could be very useful for accessing #overturemaps https://chatgpt.com/g/g-onSLtzQQB-overture-maps-gpt
Maybe there is a role for GenAI in geo?
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@cbed at least for my country, maybe 99% of #OvertureMaps POIs are from Facebook. Practically every organization and company here would set up a Facebook page in lieu of an actual website. And based on my past unscientific assessment of Overture’s data, I don’t think majority are accurately placed on the map. But the other types of data (like opening hours, telephone, email, etc.) I think are good enough.
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@jwass2000 and @ian, thank you so much for clarifying the intent of the PR. I’ve updated my original post to point to your replies and to repeat what you both said about the address schema being intentionally simple at first.
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I became aware of this #OvertureMaps PR¹ and you can tell that it seems they haven’t read “Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses”².
“All addresses have [...] street, number, [...] postcode.” Good luck recording addresses in Japan!
UPDATE! @jwass2000 (who opened the PR) and @ian (founder of #OpenAddresses) have replied saying that the address schema is intentionally simple at first but will eventually be more sophisticated.
¹ https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/pull/193
² https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/
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I suddenly discovered that #OvertureMaps data on administrative boundaries is now licensed under ODbL and contains #OpenStreetMap data
https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/attribution/#adminsdivisions
Initially, this was data from Esri and TomTom under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 license.
https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/archived/#theme-specific-updates-6
The only dataset that doesn't contain OpenStreetMap data is POI dataset.
Hey guys, one @everydoor and @organicmaps not enough to make OSM data an industry standard.
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@filsdunet #OSM #OvertureMaps
Pour en apprendre plus et en discuter (en français) il y a ce sujet : https://forum.openstreetmap.fr/t/overture-maps-parlons-en/11616/18 -
Interesting bit of #OpenStreetMap #OvertureMaps related news:
Niantic, the company behind #PokemonGO and #Ingress have joined the overture maps foundation.I don't mind them joining Overture... but it is kinda weird to me that they're not nor have they ever been corporate member of the OSMF... which is like.... Their entire business revolves around OSM yet they never contributed to OSMF.... and now they're paying Overture... hmm
https://pokemongohub.net/post/news/niantic-joins-overture-maps-foundation-gets-access-to-59m-pois/
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I very much agree with @simon’s observation: @developmentseed uses a lot of @openstreetmap data in their projects (heck, their profile states “winning with open data” and their offshoot company #Mapbox was built on OSM), but #DevelopmentSeed chose to become a Contributor Member of #OvertureMaps but notably is *not* a corporate member of the #OpenStreetMap Foundation.
I am kinda tired of companies taking OSM for granted.
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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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Overture Places are quite disappointing at the moment based on a quick scan of my local area. May have been a mistake to release early without more QA or perhaps this is an alpha to gain feedback. #overturemaps #overturemapsfoundation #OSM https://bdon.github.io/overture-tiles/places.html#16.64/-33.882274/151.205331
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#Meta, #Microsoft, and #Amazon have launched their open-source mapping project
In other words, big tech reinvents #OpenStreeMaps so they can control something with the words "open source" in the description.
And to make matters worse, Bing Maps and other products pulled a lot of their data from Open Street Maps in the first place. I have contributed a bit to OSM, but will not be contributing to Overture.
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https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808274/meta-microsoft-amazon-overture-open-source-mapping
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TIL that Meta/FB actually has a simplified single-table database schema based on their #OpenStreetMap-derived #DaylightMap distribution called Earth Table. It has several themes like "building", "road", and "water" further divided into classes and subclasses. They first announced this at the #NACIS2022 conference and I actually think this is closer to what #OvertureMaps is going to be rather than Daylight Map itself.
https://daylightmap.org/earth/
P.S. TIL that Jennings Anderson now works for Meta.
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TIL that Meta/FB actually has a simplified single-table database schema based on their #OpenStreetMap-derived #DaylightMap distribution called Earth Table. It has several themes like "building", "road", and "water" further divided into classes and subclasses. They first announced this at the #NACIS2022 conference and I actually think this is closer to what #OvertureMaps is going to be rather than Daylight Map itself.
https://daylightmap.org/earth/
P.S. TIL that Jennings Anderson now works for Meta.
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TIL that Meta/FB actually has a simplified single-table database schema based on their #OpenStreetMap-derived #DaylightMap distribution called Earth Table. It has several themes like "building", "road", and "water" further divided into classes and subclasses. They first announced this at the #NACIS2022 conference and I actually think this is closer to what #OvertureMaps is going to be rather than Daylight Map itself.
https://daylightmap.org/earth/
P.S. TIL that Jennings Anderson now works for Meta.
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TIL that Meta/FB actually has a simplified single-table database schema based on their #OpenStreetMap-derived #DaylightMap distribution called Earth Table. It has several themes like "building", "road", and "water" further divided into classes and subclasses. They first announced this at the #NACIS2022 conference and I actually think this is closer to what #OvertureMaps is going to be rather than Daylight Map itself.
https://daylightmap.org/earth/
P.S. TIL that Jennings Anderson now works for Meta.
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TIL that Meta/FB actually has a simplified single-table database schema based on their #OpenStreetMap-derived #DaylightMap distribution called Earth Table. It has several themes like "building", "road", and "water" further divided into classes and subclasses. They first announced this at the #NACIS2022 conference and I actually think this is closer to what #OvertureMaps is going to be rather than Daylight Map itself.
https://daylightmap.org/earth/
P.S. TIL that Jennings Anderson now works for Meta.
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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)
