Backed by Microsoft, AWS and Meta, the Overture Maps Foundation launches its first open map data sets

Competition is good, more competition is better!

"It’s not often you’ll find Microsoft, Amazon and Meta in the same room, collaborating toward the same goals. But that’s exactly what we have with the Overture Maps Foundation, an initiative to develop interoperable and open map data.

Launched in December 2022, the Overture Maps Foundation is an attempt to counter Google’s stranglehold on online mapping. The Linux Foundation-hosted outfit has been releasing early previews of its data sets over the past year, and the first beta incarnation arrived this April. But on Wednesday, we’re seeing the first formal fruits of this big collaborative effort: The initiative is launching a quartet of open data sets in general availability (GA). ..."

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