If you work in geospatial, your first reaction to “Overture Maps” was probably some version of: don’t we already have enough maps? OpenStreetMap exists. Google and Microsoft have their own....
If you’ve ever pulled up a map on your phone, checked a flood zone before buying a house, or wondered how a delivery app always seems to know exactly where...
The conversations we had at the 2026 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) pointed to something real: more teams across more sectors are reaching for open, standardized spatial data. On the...
Members spanning technology, public sector, academia and non-profits standardize on open spatial data and unique IDs via GERS Summary Overture’s membership has nearly doubled since 2024, with new additions spanning...
As Overture Maps Foundation grows the ecosystem to 50 members, that milestone is really a story about the people and organizations behind it. From government agencies streamlining how they share...
In April, 30+ member organizations gathered in Florence for the third annual Overture Maps Foundation Member Summit. Three days, 28 sessions, and the most renewed version of Overture we’ve felt...
Microsoft is one of the founding members of Overture, working collaboratively to high-quality, freely available, open map data so everyone can build better maps, faster.
New General Member to provide large-scale global entity and locations dataset spanning 324M organizations and 512M locations SAN FRANCISCO, February 25, 2026 — Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to...
Overture Maps Foundation participated in GeoBuiz Summit 2026 from January 12 to 14, joining leaders across industry, government, and academia to discuss the future of open, interoperable geospatial data and the shared infrastructure needed to support it.
The Overture Maps Foundation is now three years old, and we’ve met every milestone we’ve set out to meet. But there’s still much more to come. Please enjoy this interview with Software Engineering Radio’s Gregory Kapfhammer and Amy Rose, Overture CTO, and Jennings Anderson, software engineer at Meta. It is one of the best, most…
