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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…

One of our goals at Overture is to make geospatial data easier to work with. We want to help geospatial experts and data generalists easily connect to our datasets and,…

Imagine your business information seamlessly integrated into maps and location services used by billions of people worldwide. This isn't a future vision; it's the reality Overture Maps is creating today,…

The second annual Overture Member Summit recently brought together more than a hundred people from 30 member organizations in Charleston for three days of collaboration and progress. The energy throughout…

In today's data-rich world, the geospatial community faces unique challenges in storing, processing, and sharing this data at scale. As mapping datasets grow in complexity and size, traditional file formats…

The geospatial industry faces a critical challenge: we're drowning in data but starving for efficient ways to use it. A recent panel at GeoBuiz 2025 revealed how open map data…

Amy Rose was recently named the first CTO of the Overture Maps Foundation (Overture) and will lead Overture’s work in making its datasets interoperable and accessible to all kinds of…

Albi Wiedersberg was just named VP of Product Management at the Overture Maps Foundation, where he’ll extend his existing work on meeting user, partner and member needs. The creation of…

Overture Maps Foundation (Overture) was formed in December 2022 to address a pressing need for reliable, interoperable open map data.  The vision was intentionally huge and transformative for the mapping…

At Overture Maps Foundation, collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. While our data releases and Explorer tool represent visible progress, there's an equally important effort happening behind…