It's a press release I suppose, but saying the world lacks an open platform, and processing to use such open platform, sounds a bit weird
It's a press release I suppose, but saying the world lacks an open platform, and processing to use such open platform, sounds a bit weird
I'd love to hear more about that
https://daylightmap.org is built by Meta (Facebook) to allow their maps to meet their quality needs consistently while still pulling and encouraging OSM updates. This unlocks OSM data for a large amount of sensitive corporations.
I personally have made quite a few edits on behalf of customers who pointed out errors in the map.
The popularity of OSM-based navigation apps has made it useful for people to download editing apps to ensure their locale is as up-to-date as possible (this is getting better and better every year).
So it's like OSM "stable"?
Tom Tom have got their work cut out, this space is super competitive. Just passively taking the data is not a way to compete in this space. You need to step up to stand out. Tom Tom is doing this out of necessity. They've been active in this space for a long time but they are now getting a lot of competition from other companies; many of whom are pooling resources via open data efforts, like open street maps. That gives these companies a cost advantage because maintaining maps is an expensive business and the base map is now a free commodity.