Overture Maps Foundation

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The Overture Maps Foundation is an open data mapping collaboration, launched in mid-December 2022 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. Its stated mission is "powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data." Overture founding members were Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom. [1] [2] [3]

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The Overture project is intended to be complementary to the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap project, and the foundation encourages members to contribute data directly to the OSM project. [4]

Data will be released under the Community Database License Agreement – Permissive v2, unless required otherwise by licensing conflicts. [4]

Releases

In April 2024, the Foundation released the first version of its dataset, as part of a beta test of its service. [5] The data is available in GeoParquet, an incubating Open Geospatial Consortium standard that adds interoperable geospatial types to Apache Parquet, [6] format via Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. [7] [8]

The schema for the system is still under development.

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