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.

References

  1. ↑ Sawers, Paul (2022-12-15). "Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data". MSN. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  2. ↑ Plumb, Taryn (2022-12-15). "Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  3. ↑ "Linux Foundation Announces Overture Maps Foundation to Build Interoperable Open Map Data". finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  4. 1 2 "FAQ – Overture Maps Foundation". Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  5. ↑ Lardinois, Frederic (2024-04-16). "Overture Maps Foundation releases the first beta of its open map dataset". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  6. ↑ "Geoparquet - Geospatial Data in Parquet" . Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  7. ↑ "Overture 2024-04-16-beta.0 Release Notes – Overture Maps Foundation" . Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  8. ↑ OvertureMaps/data, github.com, 2024-04-17, retrieved 2024-04-17


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