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…
Overture is collaborating with the OpenTravel Alliance (OTA), which recently joined the Linux Foundation and Overture as a member, to solve a long-standing challenge in the travel industry: data interoperability. For years, the travel sector has struggled to standardize location data for hotels, attractions, and other points of interest across a complex ecosystem of providers.
Today, Overture Maps Foundation announced the general availability of the Global Entity Reference System (GERS). GERS provides common, open, accessible IDs for geospatial entities like buildings, places, and roads, making...
