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Overture Maps | Dec 14, 2023

Overture Buildings Theme Hits 2.3B Buildings With Addition of Google Open Buildings Data

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…

Overture Maps | Nov 9, 2023

How TomTom turns open data into the Overture transportation layer: Road Sectioning

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 to Matthew Beedham for authoring the original work. Additional credit goes to Pascal Clarysse and Siavash Shakeri. To explore the…

Overture Maps | Oct 19, 2023

Enriching Overture Maps Data with GERS

This article was originally published on Esri's ArcGIS Blog. We're grateful for the permission to cross-post it on our platform. All credit to the original author Deane Kensok - ArcGIS Content CTO and publisher. Read the original article here. This week, Overture Maps released its second version of open map…

Overture Maps | Sep 15, 2023

Building Interoperable Map Data, Adding Unique IDs

The goal of the Overture Maps Foundation is to build interoperable open map data for anyone needing enterprise-quality map data to build map services. To make that happen, the highest quality open geospatial data sources must be conflated, combining data sets from various community, government, and private sources into unified…

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