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SoftwareSavior@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago

Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data

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Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data

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SoftwareSavior@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 3 years ago
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The Linux Foundation has partnered with Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom to create interoperable and open map data.
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    So it’s like OpenStreetMap for companies? They state they’re going to basically scrape OSM. Is this not just competitors trying to dunk on Google while doing EEE against efforts like OpenStreetMap?

    I mean, Microsoft does it best https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

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      it’s managed by the linux foundation

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        There’s at least a little reason to be weary. The Linux Foundation gets its money from corporations, including pretty much all of the canonical Big Tech companies.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation#Members

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