MazonnaCara89@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoMeta, Microsoft, Amazon and TomTom have launched their open map datasetwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down14cross-posted to: android@lemmy.world
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minus-squareIllNess@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up28·1 year agoThis does use OpenStreetMap. It adds other public data from other sources. Out of the four layers Overture Maps provides, th ey use OpenStreetMap for the Transportation and Building layers.
minus-squareReversalHatchery@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoUsing it is not contributing to it. Or am I a contributor to the Linux kernel, and even to Windows itself?
minus-squareIllNess@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFor Windows, considering how much data is sent back to Microsoft, using Windows contributes in it’s own way. Overture says they are providing data. What ever is contributed to OSM is up to the OSMF, not Overture.
This does use OpenStreetMap. It adds other public data from other sources.
Out of the four layers Overture Maps provides, th ey use OpenStreetMap for the Transportation and Building layers.
Using it is not contributing to it. Or am I a contributor to the Linux kernel, and even to Windows itself?
For Windows, considering how much data is sent back to Microsoft, using Windows contributes in it’s own way.
Overture says they are providing data. What ever is contributed to OSM is up to the OSMF, not Overture.