Google rivals on Thursday unveiled a project to make freely available data sets for map features to be built into online offerings.
Alphabet Inc-owned Google dominates online mapping, selling its services to other companies or platforms and using location and navigation capabilities to enhance its other offerings, including online advertising.
Meta Platforms Inc, Microsoft Corp, TomTom NV and Amazon Web Services have now introduced what they call the Overture Maps Foundation, the goal of which is to make comprehensive mapping data openly available for use by whoever may need it, the non-profit Linux Foundation…
