{"id":15465,"date":"2023-01-09T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/?p=15465"},"modified":"2023-01-03T19:20:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T00:20:41","slug":"amazon-meta-microsoft-and-tomtom-prepare-innovation-to-compete-with-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/en\/amazon-meta-microsoft-and-tomtom-prepare-innovation-to-compete-with-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom Prepare Innovation to Compete with Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In order to provide technologies that contribute to mobility in large cities and promote innovation, prestigious companies such as Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom have partnered to create the Overture Maps Foundation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This is a collaboration to develop open and interoperable mapping data that would represent direct competition to Google Maps<\/strong>. The intention is to create high-quality, easy-to-use open maps by promoting and adopting a common data schema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Furthermore, the invention seeks to address the current need for map data in areas such as mobility, navigation, logistics and data visualization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overture’s mission is to enable current and next-generation mapping products that are easy to use. The mapping data will be open and extensible by all under an open data license. This alternative could become a rival to map leader Google Maps<\/strong> or Google Maps API services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n