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Bringing together maps, data, and real estate at JLLTechnologies. Previously product & engineering for open and interoperable data at Esri.
A few weeks ago Overture Maps was announced, a collaboration between AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to "create reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data"
This generated wave of speculation about what it might mean for OpenStreetMap and players like Google
In Ep. 163 of our podcast @stevenfeldman interviews @Mprioleau
of Meta about what Overture Maps hopes to be, why it was formed, and its intended place in the geospatial ecosystem.
https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-163
Can we also take a moment to note that "woke", as used here, was originally a Black American term for being aware of systemic racism, and in just a few years, the US right turned it into a totally content-free sneer? And the entire English-speaking media basically just ran with it, to the extent that you now hear it used in _Finnish_?
Because that's white supremacy for you. Criticism, even awareness, of the racist power structure will not be tolerated.
