The companies are collaborating to release free map data for developers.
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TIL TomTom still exists.
If they want to make data free, why not just add it to OSM?
And what are they planning to do with it? Because there’s no such coming thing as an altruistic act by companies, and those all have a long track record of fucking people over
They are definately looking to make money off of it: https://www.feedough.com/how-google-maps-works-makes-money/
- Advertising
- Selling APIs
- Partnering with other Companies
- and, of course, data mining