News: U.K. advocacy group calling on Apple, Google, and Uber to openly share map data

A U.K. based advocacy group, The Open Data Institute (ODI), has published a report calling on the U.K. government “to work with Google, Apple and Uber to publish more map data and support the UK’s emerging technologies,” citing the importance of “geospatial data” — data that “describes places including the address of a building, the boundaries of cities and regions, and the extent of flood plains” — for the…