Overture Maps Foundation

Call For Proposals (CFP) | LF Events The Overture Member Summit is our annual event where members come together to exchange ideas, strengthen connections, and set Overture’s future direction. This year’s summit will build momentum for…

🗺️ If you're a member of Overture, don’t miss your chance to submit a proposal for the #OvertureMaps Member Summit 2026!

🔗: events.linuxfoundation.org/overture-mem...

⏰ CFP closes Sunday, February 8
🗓️ Event date: April 21–23, 2026

🤝 Become a member to participate: overturemaps.org/become-a-mem...

Three Years In: How Overture Maps is Changing the Way the World Builds Maps - Overture Maps Foundation Overture creates a common foundation of map data. We bring together open data from crowdsourced, government, and machine learning sources, then do the work of normalizing it to a single schema and con...

Three years in, Overture Maps has moved from alpha to General Availability across most data themes.

Learn how open foundational datasets, cloud-native formats, and #GERS reduce the “conflation tax” and enable interoperable geospatial data.

Read: overturemaps.org/blog/2026/th...

GeoBuiz Summit 2026 Highlights: Collaboration, Interoperability, and Infrastructure - Overture Maps Foundation Overture Maps Foundation participated in GeoBuiz Summit 2026 from January 12 to 14, joining leaders across industry, government, and academia to discuss the future of open, interoperable geospatial da...

🗺️ Earlier this month, Overture joined leaders across industry, government, & academia at GeoBuiz Summit 2026.

💬 Our recap blog highlights include Will Mortenson’s perspective on providing a common foundation of map data, and #GERS.

Read the recap: overturemaps.org/blog/2026/ge...

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📢 Overture 2025-12-17.0 is live.

📌 Places: New taxonomy with clearer hierarchies
🚉 Transportation: 725k+ new TomTom segments
📍 Addresses: New Quebec dataset
🌐 Base: OSM refresh + 9,690 rollercoasters 🎢
📐 Schema: v1.15.0

Get the open data: docs.overturemaps.org/blog/2025/12...

🎂 Overture Maps turns 3.

From a shared idea to open, interoperable base map data used in the real world. Grateful for the community that made it possible.💙

Curious about Overture Maps? Join us: overturemaps.org/become-a-mem...

Overture Maps Explained on Software Engineering Radio - Overture Maps Foundation The Overture Maps Foundation is now three years old, and we’ve met every milestone we’ve set out to meet. But there’s still much more to come. Please enjoy this interview with Software Engineering Rad...

📻 Software Engineering Radio spoke with Amy and Jennings about the foundations of geospatial data, the role of a shared schema, how #OvertureMap’s dataset has grown to 4.2B+ features, and more!

🔗 Read the interview to learn Overture's progress & goals: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/ov...

From discovery to action: A new foundation for travel - Overture Maps Foundation Imagine asking an AI agent to book a hotel. The agent books the room, finds restaurants you like, a concert venue nearby, and lines up ground transportation. This smooth, integrated experience is the ...

✈️ Travel is held back by fragmented location data and systems that can’t speak to each other. #GERS changes this with one open, stable ID for every real-world place: enabling accurate discovery, seamless bookings, and AI-ready travel experiences.

📖: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/fr...

Building Complete Address Coverage: How We Brought Every Address in Mississippi Together - Overture Maps Foundation To the uninitiated, address data appears simple. Scrawl an address on an envelope and a postal service will deliver it to the specified destination. However, the data enabling these systems...

Address data might look simple, but anyone who has worked with it knows how fragmented it is.

Jeff’s new blog uses Mississippi to show how Overture turns scattered sources into one clean, ready-to-use dataset.

Full story 👇
overturemaps.org/blog/2025/bu...

We’re thrilled to welcome William Mortenson as our new Executive Director!

He brings 25+ years of geospatial experience to advance open, interoperable map data and collaboration across the industry.

🔗 Read the full announcement: overturemaps.org/announcement...

Open Collaboration Wins: Overture Named to Fast Company’s 2025 Next Big Things in Tech - Overture Maps Foundation We’ve long thought that we’re onto something big here at Overture. And now the rest of the world does, too. I’m pleased to announce that Fast Company has recognized the...

We’re thrilled to share that the Overture Maps Foundation has been named to Fast Company’s 2025 Next Big Things in Tech list for our work on GERS! 🌍✨

Read our blog to learn more about what this means for #GERS and #OpenData: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/op...

📢 Overture 2025-09-24.0 is now live.

📌 6M new POIs from Foursquare OS Places
🎯 Better confidence scores w/ signal patches
🚉 Expanded TomTom data + coverage in 🇮🇹🇵🇹🇲🇽🇪🇬🇸🇪🇮🇩
📐 New schema properties for clarity & usability

Get the #opendata: docs.overturemaps.org/blog/2025/09...

📢Announcing our keynote speakers!

4 superb speakers; seriously, they rock
Introducing you across this week

Meet Amy Rose

Currently = CTO @overturemaps.bsky.social 
Responsible = technical roadmap, infrastructure design, data interoperability strategy
30 years #geospatial domain = myriad solutions

We’re honored to share that the #OvertureMaps has received the GeoGov Summit Innovation in Public-Private Partnerships Award. 🏆

A heartfelt thank you to our community. Your contributions make Overture possible. 👏 And thank you to Geospatial World Forum for the recognition.

📢 Overture 2025-08-20.0 is now live.

New Building data from Esri and Vancouver, plus expanded Base theme with quay, railway, and artwork classes. A minor patch for Microsoft ML buildings will follow shortly.

Get the open data: docs.overturemaps.org/blog/2025/08...

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📢 Overture 2025-07-23.0 is live!

This month brings new Brazil buildings data, improved tagging, and expanded Türkiye coverage — part of our 12-month streak of on-time open data drops since GA.🛤️

Grab the latest data → docs.overturemaps.org/blog/2025/07...

That’s a wrap on EsriUC 2025!

Thanks to everyone who visited Overture Maps, joined the Passport Adventure with AWS, Meta, Maxar, TomTom, Nearmap & con terra, and congrats to our Capybara winners 🧸✨

Grateful for this amazing community 💛

Esri User Conference 2025 - Overture Maps Foundation Esri User Conference 2025 brings together the global GIS and mapping community to explore how spatial thinking and geospatial technology are solving the world’s most complex challenges. Overture Maps ...

🌏 What’s next for spatial data infrastructure?

Join Overture Maps ED Marc Prioleau at #EsriUC on July 16 to explore how #OpenData & unique IDs are driving integration across sectors.

📅 8:30–9:30 AM PDT

🔗 overturemaps.org/event/esri-u...

Esri User Conference 2025 - Overture Maps Foundation Esri User Conference 2025 brings together the global GIS and mapping community to explore how spatial thinking and geospatial technology are solving the world’s most complex challenges. Overture Maps ...

🌐 Don’t miss “ArcGIS Living Atlas – Open Data Content” on July 15 at #EsriUC!

See how global datasets like OpenStreetMap + #OvertureMaps are powering #OpenData in ArcGIS.

📅 8:30–9:30 AM PDT

🔗 overturemaps.org/event/esri-u...

Esri User Conference 2025 - Overture Maps Foundation Esri User Conference 2025 brings together the global GIS and mapping community to explore how spatial thinking and geospatial technology are solving the world’s most complex challenges. Overture Maps ...

🌍 Overture Maps is heading to #EsriUC 2025!

We’re bringing insights on #OpenData & #GERS — with sessions on Living Atlas & spatial data infrastructure.

📍July 14–18, San Diego
🔗 overturemaps.org/event/esri-u...

A walkthrough of the full GERS framework: UUIDs, Registry, Changelogs, and bridge files.

See how:
🆔 UUID lookups in the Registry
📊 Changelog analysis for tracking changes
🌉 Bridge files to Facebook pages
🗺️ Division hierarchy queries

👉 Dive in:https://docs.overturemaps.org/gers/gers-tutorial/

Ready to connect your data to GERS? Our new tutorial shows you how

Step-by-step guide covering:
🎯 Spatial matching techniques
🔧 Data enrichment with GERS IDs
🌉 Creating your own bridge files
🔄 Maintenance workflows

Start now: docs.overturemaps.org/gers/gers-tu...

Introducing Bridge Files - Overture Maps Foundation

Connecting your data to GERS just got easier.

Bridge files now link datasets like OSM, Esri & Meta to Overture.

🔗 Faster onboarding
📈 Easy enrichment
🔍 Clear data sources

📖 Learn more: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/in...

Understanding Overture's Global Entity Reference System - Overture Maps Foundation Today, Overture Maps Foundation announced the general availability of the Global Entity Reference System (GERS). GERS provides common, open, accessible IDs for geospatial entities like buildings, plac...

The complete Global Entity Reference System (#GERS) explained 🗺️

4 components working together:
🗺️ Reference Map (open & validated datasets)
📊 Changelogs (track updates)
🔍 Registry (ID lookup)
🌉 Bridge Files (instant connections)

Check out the system overview: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/un...

🗺️ Industry leaders agree: #GERS is changing how we integrate spatial data, and the impact is real.

Microsoft, Esri, and Precisely share how GERS is helping eliminate costly data conflation and enabling faster, smarter decisions.

📣 Read the announcement: overturemaps.org/announcement...

Tired of spending more time prepping data than using it? #GERS eliminates that problem by making data integration faster and cheaper.

@addresscloud.bsky.social processes millions of buildings in minutes. Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, & Esri are on board.

Learn how: overturemaps.org/resources/in...

📢 Overture 2025-06-25.0 is live!

🔑 Switched to UUIDs. Also in this release:
📍 New address data (🇬🇱 🇸🇬 🇺🇸)
🏠 Vancouver buildings 🇨🇦
📌 64M+ places from Krick
🚉 Turkey transport via TomTom
🌎Base: broader coverage & features

🔗 Get the #opendata: overturemaps.org/download

Overture Maps Launches GERS, a Global Standard for Interoperable Geospatial IDs, to Drive Data Interoperability - Overture Maps Foundation Unique IDs make it easier and cheaper to attach data to geospatial entities, such as buildings, streets, places, etc. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—June 25, 2025 — The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborativ...

🚀 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: overturemaps.org/uncategorize...

YouTube video by Overture Maps Foundation Building Open, Interoperable Map Data Through Collaboration | Overture Maps Foundation

Building open, interoperable map data together. 🤝

Our new video spotlights the vision behind Overture Maps and how organizations are working together to transform the mapping industry.

🎥 Watch now — and stay tuned for something big coming this week.

youtu.be/97BmFk7o8DE

State of the Map US 2025 - Overture Maps Foundation State of the Map US is the largest gathering of OpenStreetMap community members from across the country. This year’s theme, “Charting the Course,” highlights the evolving role of mobility mapping...

📍 We’re heading to State of the Map US 2025! Catch #OvertureMaps at:

🧭 Marc Prioleau – What you might not know about Overture
🛠️ Jennings Anderson – From Daylight to Overture: Validated OSM data

overturemaps.org/event/state-...
#SOTMUS

📢 Overture 2025-05-21.0 is now live!

This update enhances data across base, buildings, divisions, and more — and introduces PinMeTo as a new Places data provider.

🔗 Get the #opendata: docs.overturemaps.org/release/late...