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The conversations we had at the 2026 Esri User Conference (Esri UC) pointed to something real: more teams across more sectors are reaching for open, standardized spatial data. On the…

Walk down Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado with Sean Gorman and he'll point out things most people filter out: which storefront signs are actually visible from the sidewalk, which business…

LLMs are good with text and bad with coordinates, so they guess when asked where things are. Overture is testing whether map geometry itself can become the connective layer across…

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…

My trip to Madison started with chasing the sunset. The city looked magical, with an island splitting the lake in two, and the sky, the clouds, and the lake's reflection…

Maintaining an accurate Places dataset at scale is challenging: Businesses are always changing, with 1 in 4 businesses opening, closing, or relocating each year. This requires a constant supply of…

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…

Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally transforming how we search, analyze, and build. But as developers push LLMs into more complex enterprise applications, they keep running into a fundamental blind spot: LLMs…

If you have ever followed a map to a storefront only to end up standing in an empty parking lot, you have experienced the limits of traditional geocoding. Like other…