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Production-ready 1.0 version expected to unleash untold mapping services and product innovations SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — April 16, 2024 — The Overture Maps Foundation (Overture), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products, today announced the Beta release of its global open map dataset, signifying that Overture’s foundational data…

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 schema are in good shape, but we're not done yet. We need your help to make them even better.  We…

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 idea to create reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data as a shared asset that any map service provider or…

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 of the Google Open Buildings data set. Google Open Buildings consists of 2D building footprints derived from high-resolution satellite imagery…