OpenStreetMap community

Overture maps is a project by osm supporting companies to present their fake and/or low quality data to their shareholders. They can't import it to osm because of the aformentiones reasons, so they created their own osm with blackjack and hookers.

Roads and landuse data is from osm so it it's the same. Building contours based on osm and from some MS ai tool, similar to what you get in the RapId editor. At some places it's good, in dense cities it's unusable, and there are a lot of false positives, fake buildings on lakes and rivers, etc. Shops and POIs are from Facebook, a lot of them are at the wrong position or they not exist anymore, duplicates and jokes etc.

So as I see, it's not usable by itself for anything. But it's license is compatible to osm, so you can freely copy from there. I used it to check validity of osm notes. Facebook via this allowed us to copy data from any page, it was a grey area before. Here where I live a lot of shops don't have a website only a FB page, and it wasn't clear if you can copy phone numbers, email addresses from there. Now the same data is available in overture

It doesn't actually matter too much. They use mostly our data, so legally I think it's ODBL too, and we can import anything genuinely useful they do.

Overture is a separate project so they can add stuff OSM doesn't want like data generated from imagery that is not checked by people. That might make Overture better in areas where osm data is sparse. They can also restrict other things only import tags they like, or merge some tags that mean similar things to make it easier for data consumers.

looks like just big tech stealing our community work for free

Eh, when you scroll down to "steering members", it starts to look a lot less attractive.

From a quick look, looks like a nice project. If it proves to be more usable with higher accuracy than OSM and there's an android apk for it, I'll try it.

@unknowing8343 they're doing fine...?

They have been publishing their data sets and stuff over time.

Anyone who thought the overture maps was going to create their own open street map clearly didn't understand what the point of it was.

The idea of overture maps is that they are going to make it easier for developers to have standardized map data sets to work with. They'll have much less detail in the actual open street map database but there'll be much more standardized