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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…
Oct 19, 2023 |
Enriching Overture Maps Data with GERS
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) IDs. GERS IDs have been assigned to over 1.6 million building footprints across several cities in North America, South America,…
Sep 15, 2023 |
Building Interoperable Map Data, Adding Unique IDs
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 quality open geospatial data sources must be conflated, combining data sets from various community, government, and private sources into unified…
Sep 6, 2023 |
Webinar Recap – Working With Overture Data: A Step-by-Step Guide
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 Meta. The webinar covered Overture's initial data release which came out in late July, the decision to adopt the cloud-native…
Jul 6, 2023 |
Overture Maps Foundation at the 2023 Esri User Conference – Public-Private Partners for Open Map Data Development
Next week, I am headed to the Esri User Conference in San Diego. I am looking forward to talking about Overture Maps and how the project can support open mapping initiatives from national, state, and local GIS agencies. As a member of Overture Maps Foundation, Esri has been a great…
Jun 15, 2023 |
Overture Maps Previews Data Schema and Reference System
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 ID system that will allow users to easily join additional data types to the map data. Overture's mission is to…
Apr 26, 2023 |
Overture Maps Foundation at Geospatial World Forum: A New Model for Open Map Data
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 for Open Map Data through Public-Private Partnership.” Open map data serves as a crucial platform for expanding the use of…
Apr 12, 2023 |
Overture Maps Foundation Update – A Look at Progress, Possibilities
Last December, we announced the formation of the Overture Maps Foundation. It marked the start of a process to enlist a growing community of map data users to build an open map dataset that will meet the needs of map service providers as the mapping market evolves. Since then, we’ve…
