🗺️Overture Maps Released With 54 Million Places Of Interest

As more companies join Overture Map Foundation the maps get more and more data and layers we can use for our apps

If you worked with map based applications you know how that cartography isn’t easy and setting things up is quite complicated beyond some degree of complexicity.

One of the easiest maps to embed are Google Maps, but these aren’t free.

Leaflet map library in Javascript, source: Leaflet page

A great alternative is OpenStreetMaps. A top notch open cartography database that offers wide range of tileset providers and is widely supported with a range of libraries to display these maps, like Leaflet.

OpenStreetMaps home page

Not everyone knows how these maps are built. In fact your neigbour can be one of millions of contributors that update the maps according to the changes in your landscape.

He or she can add new businesses, new roads, modify parks to reflect changes made in your city or village.