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Overture Maps recently hosted an informative webinar titled "Working With Overture Data: A Step-by-Step Guide" featuring a core member of the Overture team – Jennings Anderson, Ph.D., Research Scientist at Meta. The webinar covered Overture's initial data release which came out in late July, the decision to adopt the cloud-native…

Initial dataset establishes a baseline for four important layers of open map data, including newly released open data for nearly 60 million places worldwide. 

Next week, I am headed to the Esri User Conference in San Diego. I am looking forward to talking about Overture Maps and how the project can support open mapping initiatives from national, state, and local GIS agencies.    As a member of  Overture Maps Foundation, Esri has been a great…

The Overture Maps team previewed two important documents today:  the Overture Data Schema that outlines how the open map data will be structured and the Overture Global Entity Reference System, a stable ID system that will allow users to easily join additional data types to the map data.  Overture's mission is to…