Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in OpenStreetMap | OpenStreetMap Blog
We are thrilled to announce that the OpenStreetMap Foundation has been selected by the Sovereign Tech Agency for a service agreement in the amount of 384,000 EUR over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Tech_Fund
The Sovereign Tech Fund is a funding program from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, aimed at providing financial support to open-source software. The initial funds were allocated by the Bundestag in May 2022.
In 2022, the program had a budget of 13 million Euros,[7] which increased to approximately 22 million euros in 2023 and is expected to reach up to 16 million euros in 2024. The program is initially attached to the Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovations and is led by Adriana Groh and Fiona Krakenbürger.
Seems like a good group with a decent budget. I'm actually surprised so much was allocated to them. I really hope they're not doing a Mozilla w.r.t their pay
The Sovereign Tech Fund has supported a lot of @gnome@floss.social development in the last year, great org.
Would be awesome if this somehow results in in-app life traffic data but I doubt it.
Doesn't Google control it?
Otherwise users of OSM apps would need to share the data but I doubt it would be enough
There are APIs that can be used though obviously that depends on the country of region. That's surely not easy to implement but they're where money funds come to play.
Obviously, even money can't just magically bring in features, that's for sure.