TomTom co-founds Overture Maps Foundation to build Open Map Data
15 Dicembre 2022 - 12:02PM
TomTom’s Maps Platform will leverage Overture base
map and TomTom data to power commercial use cases for Automotive
and Enterprise
customers Amsterdam,
Netherlands, 15 December 2022, 12:02 PM CET, TomTom
(TOM2), the geolocation technology specialist, today announced,
together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta, and Microsoft, the
formation of the Overture Maps Foundation. This collaborative
effort under governance of the Linux Foundation aims to develop
interoperable open map data. As
map data supports an ever-increasing amount of use cases, the
requirements for new map content, completeness, accuracy, and
freshness are virtually limitless. To support industry demands, the
pooling of resources and the creation of a global map standard is
needed. The Overture Maps Foundation intends to realize a global
entity reference system and structured data schema. This will
facilitate an ecosystem of users and contributors to share map data
in an efficient way. “Collaborative
mapmaking is central to TomTom’s strategy. The Overture Maps
Foundation provides the framework to accelerate our goals”, Harold
Goddijn, CEO of TomTom said. “Overture’s standardization and
interoperable base map is fundamental to bringing geospatial
information from the world together. TomTom’s Maps Platform will
leverage the combination of the Overture base map, a broad range of
other data, and TomTom’s proprietary data in a continuously
integrated and quality-controlled product that serves a broad range
of use cases, including the most demanding applications like
advanced navigation, search, and automated driving.”
TomTom customers using TomTom’s new Maps Platform
will benefit from fast integration and quality control of map data
as well as a broad range of online services including map
visualization, search, routing, navigation, traffic information,
and TomTom’s digital cockpit for car makers. TomTom’s next
generation platform for mapmaking is designed with the objectives
of the Overture Maps Foundation in mind. TomTom will share its
knowledge and insights to advance an open ecosystem around
collaborative mapmaking.
Overture expects to release its first data in the
first half of 2023. While Overture has been founded by AWS,
Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom, the goal is to
expand participation and contributions to include a wide
range of organizations including service providers and governmental
organizations.
Note for
editors: please see the Linux Foundation press release for further
information about the Overture Maps
Foundation.
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