Quality Assurance Processes: Overture data will undergo validation to detect map errors, breakage, and vandalism to help ensure that map data can be used in production systems.Global Entity Reference System: Overture will simplify interoperability with a system that links entities from different data sets to the same real-world entities.

Collaborative Map Building: Overture aims to incorporate data from multiple sources, including Overture Members, civic organizations, and open data sources.Here’s what the foundation aims to deliver: Third parties could create services on top of the Overture data.

The Overture Maps Foundation’s goal is to “enable current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data.” The members will combine resources and data to build map data that is “complete, accurate, and refreshed as the physical world changes.”īeing an open-source project means the map data will be available to others. Other members can join the foundation to accelerate and improve the maps effort.

The Overture Maps Foundation has impressive founders, in addition to Linus.

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