Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Six government agencies launched a program to build an integrated data and knowledge infrastructure, or an open knowledge network, ...

The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...

It’s not often you’ll find Microsoft, Amazon and Meta in the same room, collaborating on the same goals. But that’s exactly what we have with the Overture Maps Foundation, an initiative to develop ...

The Linux Foundation has partnered with some of the world’s biggest technology companies to develop interoperable and open map data, in what is a clear move to counter Google’s dominance in the ...

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, ...

It's actually easy to turn what you know about your local area into useful public info.

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Geolocation technology specialist TomTom (TOM2) has told software application developers focused on mapping ...