The Overture Maps Foundation (OMF) is a collaborative effort by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom “to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map products”. This is their first open map dataset.
I’d just also make a plug for OpenStreetMap, which is entirely community-driven and based on fully open data.
How does one contribute to OpenStreetMap? I am trying to add locations that I know of that are not on OSM, but I was not able to figure out how to do so on their website.
I add it through their web interface. I signed up several years ago, but I spent 2020 and 2021 updating OSM for my city to be as good as Google Maps for major places, posting their open and close times, better pin placement and such.
For Poiets of Interest, check Every Door. You can find it easily, helps verifying if POIs still exist and add new ones very easily
StreetComplete is also awesome but meant for other data. I use both
Here’s one option on F-Droid: https://www.f-droid.org/packages/de.westnordost.streetcomplete
Tried it once a couple of years ago and now I’m interested in giving it another shot
I think this is relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/
I guess OSM is too open for them? Or maybe OSM didn’t want to give in to corporate demands.
OSM is very strict about verifiability of data. It is speculated that Overture is (because it also uses OSM data) meant to contain a lot more data that isn’t as strictly verifiable. Think AI generated building footprints.
