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Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and TomTom have launched their open map dataset
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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Anything we can do to have competition in the market is a good thing.
Yes please! Google Maps (the app, not so much the data) gets worse with every update.
Yeah. I love Google Maps and don't have any plans to stop using it, but it's always good for consumers to have competition. Monopolies lead to stagnation.