Overture Mapping Foundation

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News is that Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom are partnering with the Linux Foundation have set up the 'Overture Mapping Foundation' in order to develop 'open' map data. Hopefully this will be for the good of Geo-Spatial data dissemination (or) will it eventually be a monopoly service when it reaches mass?

https://overturemaps.org/ 

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