Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly (www.cnbc.com)

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Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom have formed a group that will release data that could enable companies to build their own maps. The Overture Maps Foundation has captured 59 million points of interest, including restaurants, landmarks, streets, and regional borders. The data can be used for free as the base layer for a new map application. The data was collected and donated to the foundation by Meta and Microsoft.

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[-] amapanda@en.osm.town 3 points 1 year ago

@ArbiterXero @InsertUser Facebook giving OSM the legal right to mass copy the PoI (point of interest) data would be a fucking game changer.

When I was on the OSMF Board, I asked our FB rep, and of course they said no.

[-] ArbiterXero@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly.

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