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Nov 25, 2024 |
Open Data Key to Global Health Initiatives – Recap of the WHO Panel
The world of mapping is often thought of in terms of roads, transportation, and helping people get from one place to another. But being able to map other factors — such as where people live, where populations are especially dense, where disaster-prone areas lack roads, where people have been vaccinated…
Aug 26, 2024 |
Overture Maps at AGL All Member Meeting: Collaborative Mapping to Shape the Future of Software-Defined Vehicles
The Overture Maps Foundation recently participated in the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) All Member Meeting in Berlin, where Amy Rose, Technical Director, and Albi Wiedersberg, Product & Partnerships Director, presented Overture's vision for the future of mapping in the automotive industry. The event highlighted the transformative potential of collaborative mapping…
Aug 20, 2024 |
Overture Maps: Driving Automotive Innovation Through Collaboration
The automotive industry is undergoing a technological transformation, with connected vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and the pursuit of autonomous driving reshaping the landscape. In this dynamic environment, OEMs are under pressure to deliver unique, high-quality in-car experiences that differentiate their brands and capture consumer loyalty. High-quality map data is…
Aug 13, 2024 |
AMA Recap: Overture Maps General Availability and Beyond
On August 1, 2024, Overture Maps hosted an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) session, diving deep into their recent General Availability release and future plans. The AMA featured key members of the Overture team, including Marc Prioleau (Executive Director), Amy Rose (Technical Director), Pascal Clarysse (Fellow from TomTom), and Jennings Anderson…
Jul 25, 2024 |
Introducing Overture Maps Address Theme
On July 24, Overture put out its first version of the Address Theme. This initial release included open address data for 14 countries for a total of just over 200 million address records. That’s about 10% of the world's population, so there’s a long way to go…but it is a…
May 28, 2024 |
Open Map Data as the Backbone for Spatial Data Infrastructure
Earlier this month, almost one thousand people from over 85 countries convened at the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) in Rotterdam for four days of meetings, discussions, and workshops on geospatial policy and practice. One key thread was about Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI), focusing on the challenges of establishing coherent models…
Apr 16, 2024 |
Overture Data is in Beta!
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 schema are in good shape, but we're not done yet. We need your help to make them even better. We…
Jan 24, 2024 |
Looking Forward to 2024
Last December, Overture Maps celebrated its one-year anniversary of this announcement: It's been a year since AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom launched the Overture Maps Foundation. We started with the idea to create reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data as a shared asset that any map service provider or…
Dec 14, 2023 |
Overture Buildings Theme Hits 2.3B Buildings With Addition of Google Open Buildings Data
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 of the Google Open Buildings data set. Google Open Buildings consists of 2D building footprints derived from high-resolution satellite imagery…
Nov 9, 2023 |
How TomTom turns open data into the Overture transportation layer: Road Sectioning
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 to Matthew Beedham for authoring the original work. Additional credit goes to Pascal Clarysse and Siavash Shakeri. To explore the…
