The Overture Maps Foundation recently participated in the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) All Member Meeting in Berlin, where Amy Rose, Technical Director, and Albi Wiedersberg, Product & Partnerships Director, presented...
The automotive industry is undergoing a technological transformation, with connected vehicles, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and the pursuit of autonomous driving reshaping the landscape. In this dynamic environment, OEMs are...
On August 1, 2024, Overture Maps hosted an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session, diving deep into their recent General Availability release and future plans. The AMA featured key members of...
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 million address records. That’s about 10% of the world's population, so there’s a long way to go…but it is a great start. The Address Theme…
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) IDs. GERS IDs have been assigned to over 1.6 million building footprints across several cities in North America, South America, and Europe. GERS is a…
