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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…