Foundation's growth shows industries such as
automotive, spatial imaging, and consumer all want open map
data
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FRANCISCO, May 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The
Overture Maps Foundation (Overture), a
collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation
interoperable open map data, today announced several new members,
bringing its total membership to 28, up from its original four
founding members just 18 months ago, as more companies in more
industries collaborate to achieve the benefits of open map
data.
Foundation's growth shows industries such
as automotive, spatial imaging, and consumer all want open map
data.
Forward-thinking members bring new data, technology and
perspectives to the collaboration and include AddressCloud,
AddressforAll Institute, Camptocamp, Cariad,
con terra, Cyient Limited, Development Seed,
Esri, GlobalLogic, Hyundai Motor Group,
Inframappa, Kaart, NAVIS-AMS, NDrive,
Niantic Labs, Nearmap, Nomoko,
Precisely, PTV Group, SafeGraph, Sanborn
Geospatial, Sparkgeo, and Tripadvisor.
There is significant attention from companies that work in the
mapping and Geospatial Information Services (GIS) sector reflecting
the rising interest in a high quality but open map dataset that can
be used for spatial analysis and data visualization. There is
strong representation from companies offering consumer focused map
applications for navigation, local search, ride sharing and social
media while others focus on enterprise applications where spatial
data is used in diverse industries such as insurance underwriting
and logistics. Other members are interested in emerging spatial
markets such as autonomous vehicle navigation and augmented reality
applications for mobile devices and wearables.
"Mapping technology touches many industries. We're now seeing a
diverse set of industries who want to collaborate on open map data
as a baselayer," said Marc Prioleau, executive director of
Overture Maps Foundation. "By sharing the responsibility to build
the open base layers, companies can allocate more effort to the
data and services that differentiate their services for their
customers."
Overture was founded by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta,
Microsoft, and TomTom. The original vision was to establish a
community that was open to any company or organization that wanted
to work together to build and maintain open map data. The vision
required building highly accurate open base layers for map data
commonly used across many applications. In addition, it included a
way to attach (or conflate) additional types of spatial data to
those baselayers in a simple, unambiguous way. That vision has
attracted like-minded organizations to collaboratively build and
improve open map data that underpins all kinds of applications and
is free for anyone to use with open data licenses.
The growth in membership coincides with Overture's Beta release
last month of its foundational global open map dataset. Overture
expects a comprehensive, market-grade open map dataset to be
available sometime this summer, marking its first general
availability release.
The best open map data sources are conflated into a single
Overture data set. Sources include community-built data, including
OpenStreetMap, AI-derived data, government and open commercial data
sources. The data then goes through validation and quality checks
to ensure that it is safe for use and is released in a documented
cloud native format for easy and consistent consumption by map
application developers.
To join the Overture community or become a member, please
visit:
https://overturemaps.org/become-a-member/
About Overture Maps Foundation
Founded in 2022,
Overture Maps Foundation is the world's leading home for
collaboration on the development of reliable, easy-to-use, and
interoperable open map data that will power current and
next-generation map products. This interoperable map is the basis
for extensibility, enabling companies to contribute their own data.
Members combine resources to build map data that is complete,
accurate, and refreshed as the physical world changes. Map data
will be open and extensible by all under an open data license. For
more information, please visit overturemaps.org.
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