# Overture Maps Foundation > Linux Foundation Project ## Posts - [From Discovery to Action: A New Foundation for Travel](https://overturemaps.org/blog/2025/from-discovery-to-action-a-new-foundation-for-travel/): Imagine asking an AI agent to book a hotel. The agent books the room, finds restaurants you like, a concert venue nearby, and lines up ground transportation. This smooth, integrated experience is the future of travel. Today, it is nearly impossible. - [Overture Maps Explained on Software Engineering Radio](https://overturemaps.org/blog/2025/overture-maps-explained-on-software-engineering-radio/): The Overture Maps Foundation is now three years old, and we’ve met every milestone we’ve set out to meet. But there’s still much more to come. Please enjoy this interview with Software Engineering Radio’s Gregory Kapfhammer and Amy Rose, Overture CTO, and Jennings Anderson, software engineer at Meta. It is one of the best, most complete overviews of Overture’s progress and goals to date.  - [Overture and the OpenTravel Alliance: Enabling the Future of Travel with Open Data](https://overturemaps.org/blog/2025/overture-and-the-opentravel-alliance-enabling-the-future-of-travel-with-open-data/): Overture is collaborating with the OpenTravel Alliance (OTA), which recently joined the Linux Foundation and Overture as a member, to solve a long-standing challenge in the travel industry: data interoperability. For years, the travel sector has struggled to standardize location data for hotels, attractions, and other points of interest across a complex ecosystem of providers. - [Reaching Billions with Up-To-Date Places Information in Overture](https://overturemaps.org/blog/2025/reaching-billions-with-up-to-date-places-information-in-overture/): Imagine your business information seamlessly integrated into maps and location services used by billions of people worldwide. This isn't a future vision; it's the reality Overture Maps is creating today, powered by collaborative, open data.  - [BrightQuery Joins Overture Maps Foundation to Expand Open Places Data Coverage](https://overturemaps.org/announcements/2026/brightquery-joins-overture-maps-foundation-to-expand-open-places-data-coverage/): New General Member to provide large-scale global entity and locations dataset spanning 324M organizations and 512M locations SAN FRANCISCO, February ## Pages - [Contact Us](https://overturemaps.org/about/contact-us/): Welcome to Overture Maps Foundation. Whether you're looking to collaborate, need support, or have suggestions, here's how you can connect - [GERS – Global Entity Reference System | Overture Maps](https://overturemaps.org/gers/): Overture’s Global Entity Reference System (GERS) is an ID system for geospatial entities. GERS makes data sharing, onboarding, and joining - [Become a Member](https://overturemaps.org/become-a-member/): For more information about Overture Maps Foundation membership, please review the Membership Agreement.Become a member to ensure that Overture supports - [Working Groups and Task Forces](https://overturemaps.org/about/working-groups/): The Data Working Group's mission is to oversee the data validation and release processes, approve new data providers and data - [Home](https://overturemaps.org/): Overture is powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data. 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