@dansup embrace extend extinguish of open street map

How is it different from OpenStreetMap? How is it better, if it is?

@dansup it's particularly telling that they decided not to go with the existing #OpenStreetMap tools and data. Could it be that that the OSM license would prohibit them from doing whatever they want commercially, and that's why they split off a separate entity?

@dansup (scratch my previous comment, I should read better) they're saying:

"Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly."

If this is true, and if this stays true over time this is good news for OSM.

@dansup Uhhh, what about the Linux Foundation and TomTom? They played a role in that project too and you just mention the shitty big tech companies

@dansup Apple, Google, Uber: No

@dansup no need to keep your eyes on this. This is dataset with closed data, closed pipelines to produce them, closed algorithms for quality/conflation/vandalism... Idea is to produce dataset without burden of OdbL licence which requires further sharing of data (which corporations do not like). It is made by corporations for corporations, humans/users not need to apply, and you are not interesting for overture:)