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Apr 16 2024

Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset

By Overture Maps Announcements

Production-ready 1.0 version expected to unleash untold mapping services and product innovations SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — April 16, 2024 — The Overture Maps Foundation (Overture), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable…

Apr 16 2024

Overture Data is in Beta!

By Overture Maps Blog

We need your feedback Today, we announced the beta release of our global open map dataset, and we are excited to share it with the mapping community. Our data and…

Dec 14 2023

Overture Buildings Theme Hits 2.3B Buildings With Addition of Google Open Buildings Data

By Overture Maps Blog

We are excited to continue growing our Buildings dataset in Overture’s latest release (Overture 2023-12-14-alpha.0). This release includes over 2.3B buildings, up from 1.4B last month, thanks to the addition…

Nov 09 2023

How TomTom turns open data into the Overture transportation layer: Road Sectioning

By Overture Maps Blog

The content of this piece first appeared on TomTom's Behind the Map Blog, and we are thankful for the opportunity to share it here with their consent. Full acknowledgment goes…

Oct 19 2023

Enriching Overture Maps Data with GERS

By Overture Maps Blog

This week, Overture Maps released its second version of open map data. One of the important new features in this release is the introduction of Global Entity Reference System (GERS)…

Sep 15 2023

Building Interoperable Map Data, Adding Unique IDs

By Overture Maps Blog

The goal of the Overture Maps Foundation is to build interoperable open map data for anyone needing enterprise-quality map data to build map services. To make that happen, the highest…

Sep 06 2023

Webinar Recap – Working With Overture Data: A Step-by-Step Guide

By Overture Maps Blog

Overture Maps recently hosted an informative webinar titled "Working With Overture Data: A Step-by-Step Guide" featuring a core member of the Overture team – Jennings Anderson, Ph.D., Research Scientist at…

Jul 26 2023

Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset

By Overture Maps Announcements

Initial dataset establishes a baseline for four important layers of open map data, including newly released open data for nearly 60 million places worldwide.

Jun 15 2023

Overture Maps Previews Data Schema and Reference System

By Overture Maps Blog

The Overture Maps team previewed two important documents today: the Overture Data Schema that outlines how the open map data will be structured and the Overture Global Entity Reference System, a stable…

Apr 26 2023

Overture Maps Foundation at Geospatial World Forum: A New Model for Open Map Data

By Overture Maps Blog

On Wednesday, May 3rd, Overture Maps Foundation executives and members will join the National Geospatial Institute at the Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, to discuss “A New Model…