Stewart Russell via talk wrote on 2022-12-15 07:01:
The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling
innovation through open source, today announced the formation of the
Overture Maps Foundation <https://overturemaps.org/>, a new
collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data as a
shared asset that can strengthen mapping services worldwide.
The thing is, we already have a mature global map database with
interoperable data and services: OpenStreetMap
It sounds like OSM data *structures* are the issue, and "Overture data
will be available for use by the OSM community..."
One of the Overture site FAQs asks about OpenStreetMap and its
relationship to Overture: "Overture is a data-centric map project,
not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is
intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other
sources to produce new open map data sets. 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."
It sounds like the Overture Foundation is unhappy with the
OpenStreetMap data structure and wants to clean things up, saying,
"Open map data can lack the structure needed to easily build map
products. Overture will define and drive adoption of a common,
well-structured, and documented data schema to create an easy-to-use
ecosystem of map data."
As anticipated, Ars has a write-up about it:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/linux-amazon-meta-and-microsoft-want-to-break-the-google-maps-monopoly/
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