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Overture Maps Foundation

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Overture Maps Foundation

@OvertureMaps

Collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data for mapping services worldwide | @linuxfoundation open source project

Joined November 2022

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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Jun 25, 2025
🚀 Overture’s GERS is now GA! #GERS makes data sharing, onboarding, and joining easier via common, open, accessible IDs. ⏱️Cut data integration time & cost 🔓No vendor lock-in with open ecosystem 🧩Simple joins, not complex conflations 🔗 Learn more:
Overture Maps Launches GERS, a Global Standard for Interoperable Geospatial IDs, to Drive Data...
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Jul 26, 2023
Update: We've released our initial open map datasets. The milestone release includes Places of Interest, Buildings, Transportation Network, and Administrative Boundaries layers, establishing a baseline for our future work on open map data. Learn more:hubs.la/Q01YZltW0
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Dec 15, 2022
We are excited to announce the launch of the Overture Maps Foundation, a new collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data to power mapping and location services worldwide. Read the announcement: linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-fo… #OvertureMaps #Mapping #OpenSource
Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Jul 24, 2024
Introducing Explore: Our new browser-based tool for interacting with #Overture data—no code required! This is now the quickest way to get started with Overture. Check it out: hubs.la/Q02HNSdb0
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Jul 24, 2024
We’re pleased to announce the General Availability (GA) of our global open maps datasets. ✅Base, Buildings, Divisions, Places themes are now GA ✅New alpha Address theme: 200M+ addresses from 14 countries ✅A new visualization tool Learn more: hubs.la/Q02HJQRK0
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Oct 19, 2023
🗺️ New Overture Data Release We've released new open map data with a new "Base" theme that has land, water, and land use data from @openstreetmap. We've also added GERS IDs in 1.6M+ building footprints to show datasets integration. Learn more: hubs.la/Q02667bZ0
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Dec 14, 2023
🗺️ Overture 2023-12-14-alpha.0 The integration of Google Open Buildings data has elevated our building count to over 2.3 billion, significantly enhancing our geographic coverage and laying a solid foundation for advanced mapping services. Read more: hubs.la/Q02d2_RX0
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Feb 6, 2023
We are excited to welcome Esri as a member of the Overture Maps Foundation to help drive the development and adoption of open source map data. Read the announcement: hubs.la/Q01BrpHL0 @Esri #OvertureMaps #Mapping
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Apr 12, 2023
Overture Maps released an alpha version of data to demonstrate some of the directions that we are taking on open map data. We'd love your feedback on this release...or join us in shaping the future of map data. hubs.la/Q01L4bfV0 #OvertureMaps #Mapping #OpenSource
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Nov 14, 2023
The Overture 2023-11-14-alpha.0 data release is available here: hubs.la/Q028RJcd0. We are moving to monthly releases as an initial goal and will work to increase the release cadence from there. As always, we appreciate feedback on the data and schema.
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Apr 13, 2023
Overture Maps released an alpha version of open map data showcasing over 6 million 3D buildings that had been derived from @USGS 3DEP lidar and open building footprint data. Smaller files of building data are available for download. Check it out: overturemaps.org/download/
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Apr 16, 2024
🌍 Overture Maps announces the Beta release of our global open map dataset, moving us closer to production-ready data for diverse applications. Learn more about the release and join the beta testing: hubs.la/Q02s_zQj0 #Openmapdata #opendata #overturemaps
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
May 16, 2024
📢Overture 2024-05-16-beta.0 is now available. This release includes a new global dataset of vectorized land cover features in the Base theme. Plus, new cartographic schema properties to improve your map-making experience. Join the beta testing: hubs.la/Q02xqlDK0
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Overture Maps Foundation
@OvertureMaps
Jul 31, 2023
🏙️ Did you know that Overture's Places data layer includes over 59M POI records that have not previously been released as open data? This will be a foundational element of navigation, local search, and other location-based applications. Details: hubs.la/Q01ZqSDw0
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