There's no question that Google Maps is the most popular navigation app on mobile devices. Google Maps has two big rivals: Waze, which Google owns, and Apple Maps, available only on iPhone. But if ...

The Overture Maps Foundation took info from Microsoft, Meta, and more to help more developers create a new wave of map apps. Reading time 4 minutes If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, ...

Think about it: Maps are fundamental to human evolution, exploration, innovation. Since the first maps were drawn up in the 5th and 6th centuries BCE, we have used them to guide ourselves across land, ...

The Linux Foundation has launched the Overture Maps Foundation, interoperable open map data for developers who build map services or use geospatial data and to strengthen mapping services globally.

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

The companies include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TomTom, which together could facilitate a new wave of geolocation apps. Reading time 2 minutes Some of Google’s biggest rivals are ...

The Linux Foundation (LF), one of the primary driving forces behind the continuing growth of open-source technology, is turning its attention to developing a better metaverse and creating a living ...

Google Maps is getting some competition. The Linux Foundation has announced Overture Maps, a “new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data as a shared asset that can strengthen ...

Tech giants like Meta Platforms Inc. META, Amazon Inc. AMZN, Web Services, Microsoft Corporation MSFT and TomTom TMOAY, a Dutch geolocation company, have come out in support of this project. The ...