TomTom and Tech Companies Will Build an Open Map Platform Together – IT Pro – News

Probably/no doubt the biggest difference would be the license. Compare the different Open Source licenses available. Gnu is open and makes sure it stays open, and whatever you add will open automatically too. Apache is officially open, but you can and probably make that data part of a closed license. Thus there are more types of licenses in the open source world.

The same will undoubtedly apply to public street data in the future. But something else can be added based on avg/gpl. Public street data is and will always be available to the public somewhere. But somewhere there is a limit to private data. The street has a name: General. My house has a house number, which is still public information. The land registry number for the lot my house is on is actually less general. Data within private plots (forests, industrial sites) can be plotted using satellite imagery, but this is not always possible/allowed by avg/gpl.

[toevoeging] There may also be a difference in the protocol by which the data is published and/or the protocol by which it can and may be updated. In the latter case, there may, of course, be a “polling committee”.

There might be a commitment to being able to read data directly from the source so that map updates don’t depend on the hardware/software vendor, though I would expect that from osm.

[uiteindelijk] Still searching for “Linux Foundation”. According to the wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation. There are plenty of other good open initiatives below. With the Linux Foundation in place, I see this as a positive.

Then also search for OSM: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap. Obviously this is basically/essentially the database of data: everything in one pile and then fish your data out yourself. So it is primarily about data. The protocol is not (clearly) agreed upon. I see somewhere in the end the organizations participating in OSM. I don’t think it’s entirely coincidental that the participating organizations have competitors in this “new” system. Garmin vs. TomTom.

[Reactie gewijzigd door beerse op 15 december 2022 16:15]