Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom join forces to take on Google and Apple Maps
The companies are collaborating to release free map data for developers.
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The companies are collaborating to release free map data for developers.
Chokfi, Yeah, if they're feeling altruistic, I have to wonder why they aren't just continuing to openstreetmaps.
Emperor, ![]()
The piece mentions drawing on open source data, which may include OSM.
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And what are they planning to do with it? Because there’s no such coming thing as an altruistic act by companies, and those all have a long track record of fucking people over
elscallr, They can give away the data with the only intent being market share.
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They are definately looking to make money off of it: https://www.feedough.com/how-google-maps-works-makes-money/
- Advertising
- Selling APIs
- Partnering with other Companies
- and, of course, data mining
narcogen, TIL TomTom still exists.
If they want to make data free, why not just add it to OSM?
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