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> we can try and work together to create an alternative

We can, we have. So are they ignoring OpenStreetMap?



They seem quite happy to use OSM data. We'll see how this stacks up w/r/t license: from here (and obviously IANAL), it looks very much like "sure, give us all the ODbL data you have, but we're doing a magic trick here, and the end result is not ODbL, hee hee". https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/data-attribution...


That page seems to save that almost all of the data except places IS OdBL and requires attributing OpenStreetMap?

OSM POI data is definitely severely lacking a lot of regions -- so it makes sense why they'd source that from somewhere else. It's also pretty cool that meta and microsoft's POI data is now open -- from look at it, it has the opposite problem of OSM: there are a lot of businesses in it that don't exist anymore or whose info isn't totally accurate -- but it's very usable for certain use cases (and, funnily enough, could certainly form the starting point for a clean up effort -- that COULD then be stuck in OSM and licensed under OdBL).


These are for-profit companies. Using OSM might not be an option for various reasons (both legitimate and purely greed-driven)




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