Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom join forces to take on Google and Apple Maps
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.
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
They are definately looking to make money off of it: https://www.feedough.com/how-google-maps-works-makes-money/
They can give away the data with the only intent being market share.
TIL TomTom still exists.
If they want to make data free, why not just add it to OSM?
Yeah, if they're feeling altruistic, I have to wonder why they aren't just continuing to openstreetmaps.
The piece mentions drawing on open source data, which may include OSM.