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Microsoft, Meta and Amazon Launch Campaign to Build Open Source Alternatives To Google Maps

Microsoft, Meta and Amazon Launch Campaign to Build Open Source Alternatives To Google Maps
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Big Tech coalition challenges Google and Apple s monopoly on mapping services

Google and Apple currently dominate the standard map services for Android and iOS devices. End users can use their smartphone's embedded mapping app to navigate the world.

Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft team up to take on Google Maps

The Overture Maps Foundation releases its first map dataset as it looks to power the next generation of open map data.

Amazon, Meta, Microsoft And TomTom Join Forces To Take On Apple And Google Maps

Linux Group Shares Its First Open Dataset for Creating Real Google Maps Alternatives

If you’re not Google (or, to a much lesser extent, Apple), map apps are damned hard to make. Last year, several major heavy hitters in tech, including the likes of Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, and Amazon, decided to lay down their arms and meet under a flag of parlay held aloft by the Linux Foundation to make mapping just a little easier, cheaper, and less dominated by two companies. Alone, none could establish a big enough data pool to rival the likes of Google Maps, but with their individual hoard

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