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Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon have launched their open-source mapping project
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I'm still not really getting how this differs from OpenStreetMap, can you explain it to me? Thanks.
It'll differ by adhering to the Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish strategy if history is any indicator.
A bit off-topic but Microsoft and Meta are members of the PyTorch Foundation and so far their involvement has been very positive. Microsoft has its Azure cloud solutions and needs PyTorch to thrive to counter Google's Tensorflow and JAX which are pushing people towards Google Cloud TPUs. It's hard to EEE when many of them are involved in the same foundation.
I personally do like MS and Facebook's open-source contributions even though I think Facebook's entire product stack is terrible, which is what you get when you have a lot of smart people on the payroll but terrible leadership.
Also, I think Tensorflow isn't really a thing for newer projects, since from what I read PyTorch is very dominant right now.
"so far" doing a lot of work in that post
I don't think 3E has traditionally worked out for Microsoft all things considered (IE got destroyed by Chrome), I know I'm in the minority for this, but I wouldn't be concerned right now.
I won't say it's 100% clear to me either. Here's what OpenStreetMap said about it last December:
The work obviously seems to be overlapping and my personal guess is that the companies involved in Overture likely have a different view on governance. The data is however made available under a permissive license and at the end of the day that's what matters IMO.
Yeah, maybe they just want to get the data down faster without jumping through a bureaucracy they are not familiar with to merge it.
Cautiously interested for now.
You can have a look at this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/2194302 from !openstreetmap@lemmy.ml