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Eliminating the Hidden Tax: How GERS Transforms Geospatial Data Integration

Organizations spend more integrating geospatial data than licensing it. This “hidden tax” stifles innovation across industries from insurance to transportation. Learn how GERS eliminates costly data conflation with persistent IDs for billions of real-world entities, and why early adopters are seeing transformative results—turning months of processing into minutes of simple operations.

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Building Heights: From open USGS lidar to open Overture maps

As part of the initial Overture Maps Foundation data release, we are publishing heights for over six million buildings estimated using over 34,000 km2 of open 3D Elevation Program (3DEP) lidar data from the US Geological Survey (USGS) — enabling GIS analysis and richer map visualizations.

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