If you work in geospatial, your first reaction to "Overture Maps" was probably some version of: don't we already have enough maps? OpenStreetMap exists. Google and Microsoft have their own.…
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Overture Maps data doesn’t build itself. Behind every schema fix, every dataset we conflate into GERS, and every hour spent on those early-morning working group calls, there are actual human…
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Earlier this month, I had the privilege of joining a panel at the GeoGov Summit alongside leaders from across government, commercial, and research sectors, including Michael Halem (DOT), Mike Tischler…
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If you've ever pulled up a map on your phone, checked a flood zone before buying a house, or wondered how a delivery app always seems to know exactly where…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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