Overture 2024-05-16-beta.0 is now available. Here’s what’s new and updated in this release. The “beta” designation indicates the data and schema are largely stable.
Overture Maps 2024-05-16-beta.0 is available in GeoParquet and stored on AWS and Azure. Users can select the data of interest and download it by following the process outlined here. We encourage developers wishing to adopt Overture Maps base layers to begin evaluating and providing feedback on the data, schema, and GERS IDs. Depending on the feedback from this release and subsequent releases, we anticipate moving to a production release in the next few months.
Breaking changes
In the buildings theme, we promoted class to subtype and introduced new class values. This allows for more detail in a feature. Parking garages, for example, now have the attributes: subtype=transportation and class=parking.
Deprecations
Last month, we announced the deprecation of our admins theme and launched its replacement, divisions. Because of issues with missing data in divisions, we have extended the life of admins. Here is the new deprecation schedule: the two themes will coexist in the May, June, and July 2024 releases; in the August 2024 release, we will fully remove admins from our schema and data. More information on why we made this change here.
