Playing around with the new dataset from Overture Maps, a project started a couple years go between Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and others. I can download and query the data, but doesn’t seem like it can really be used if you don’t bring a lot of cash with you.
Tom Lee really important to note that Overture is built on top of OpenStreetMap. It aims to improve OSM in various ways–for example, by vetting the content in periodic releases to avoid vandalism, by adding stable IDs, and by publishing data “sidecars” under more liberal licenses that supplement the core dataset with things like POIs and addresses. But under the hood it is primarily OSM data, which absolutely can be used without a big capital investment.
(Lots of services exist to make this easier, of course, including the one that I work for)
