Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team up on maps project to crack Apple-Google duopoly
Overture Maps Foundation is trying to collect enough data so that companies can build maps they own and operate rather than paying Google and Apple.
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.
Oh boy, a Tri-opoly
@huojtkeg I still find this worrying as an OSM contributor.
Right?????
Like the way to beat this isn’t to make a third locked in competitor.
Join up with osm and THAT would be a competitor
@ArbiterXero previously they did. Now there's Overture and it's not clear his long they will continue supporting OSM.
Mmm, yes. The solution to giant tech companies having all the market share is for there to be a THIRD giant tech company with all the market share. I mean I guess a triopoly is better than a duopoly but it's hardly a solution.
So a monopoly in online shopping is teaming up with a monopoly in operating and org software to fight against a monopoly in advertising and a monopoly in mobile device ecosytems.
Wonderful.