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Introducing Overture Maps Addresses Theme

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…

Looking Forward to 2024

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...

Enriching Overture Maps Data with GERS

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…