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What's up with Overture Maps? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I read about Overture Maps like a year or 2 ago, it seemed to me that basically they were going to create a whole new thing from scratch.

Let's be honest, with enough resources, it's easy to see that they could pull off some kind of OpenStreetMap 2.0, where all the issues from OSM are modernised and cleaned up.

What's really going on? Are we getting something soon from these people? What's the relationship with them?

On their website, they say "coming this fall". Are you excited? Scared? What should I think?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@unknowing8343 they're doing fine...?

They have been publishing their data sets and stuff over time.

Anyone who thought the overture maps was going to create their own open street map clearly didn't understand what the point of it was.

The idea of overture maps is that they are going to make it easier for developers to have standardized map data sets to work with. They'll have much less detail in the actual open street map database but there'll be much more standardized

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@thibaultmol @unknowing8343 @openstreetmap

Maybe, but they also seem to be making intermediate standards to make it easier to wean themselves off OSM.

It's not clear yet if that is actually a goal or a side effect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

@InsertUser @unknowing8343 @openstreetmap I honestly kind of doubt that, open street map is to go to the data set to want to try and recreate from scratch.

I do kind of agree I overture maps exists because there are some things that are just difficult to do with raw open street map data as developer depending on what kind of things you're needing it for