Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom join forces to take on Google and Apple Maps
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom join forces to take on Google and Apple Maps

mashable.com
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom join forces to take on Google and Apple Maps

The companies are collaborating to release free map data for developers.
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/
They can give away the data with the only intent being market share.