Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
dansup's posts Post Back to profile
dansup

Amazon, Meta and Microsoft teamed up to work on a new map standard! Will keep my eyes on this!

overturemaps.org #overture #maps

26 Jul 2023 at 19:37 | Open on mastodon.social
7 comments
Michael Downey 🇺🇳

@dansup embrace extend extinguish of open street map

26 Jul 2023 at 19:38 | Open on floss.social
Григорий Клюшников

How is it different from OpenStreetMap? How is it better, if it is?

26 Jul 2023 at 19:45
dansup

@grishka It's not better yet, from a quick look it seems like this is more about competing with Apple/Google than openstreetmaps

26 Jul 2023 at 20:02 | Open on mastodon.social
dinosauce

@dansup its dataset is, despite at times being wildly inaccurate, open source and can be used as a source in projects such as #OpenStreetMap

26 Jul 2023 at 19:50 | Open on mastodon.com.tr
rfnix

@dansup (scratch my previous comment, I should read better) they're saying:

"Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly."

If this is true, and if this stays true over time this is good news for OSM.

26 Jul 2023 at 19:53 | Open on piaille.fr
jstm@sos:~$ :blinking_cursor:

@dansup Uhhh, what about the Linux Foundation and TomTom? They played a role in that project too and you just mention the shitty big tech companies :blobfoxsignno:

26 Jul 2023 at 20:58 | Open on net.staropensource.de
Anthony :fatpikachu:
Go Up