Overture Maps

Overture Maps is a foundation of corporate members aiming to produce comprehensive datasets and other map products. Map data are assembled from multiple sources including members, civic organizations, and open data sources. The formation of the Overture Foundation was announced by the Linux Foundation in December 2022.

Currently they heavily use OpenStreetMap data, but they have also released some own datasets using open licenses.

Overture steering members are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Meta (Facebook), Microsoft and TomTom. Some other companies are members with lesser rights, including Esri.

Overture members cooperate in releasing and using open map data.

Overture Maps published a panel discussion on YouTube (2024-08-13) in which they discussed, among other topics, how they use OpenStreetMap data.

See also

• overturetoosm - a Python package to convert Overture maps objects to the OSM schema
• Public communications related to the initial announcement of Overture Maps in late 2022 – collection of discussions in various OSM channels
• Overture Categories
• Overture/Athena - quering Overture data using SQL and AWS Athena service

External links

• Official website
• Main thread about Overture at official OSM forums
• https://labs.overturemaps.org/overture-tiles/places.html — experimental tool to see Overture places on OSM map to estimate quality of one of datasets published by Overture
• https://msbarry.github.io/planetiler-overture-demo/ — 3rd party demo renderer for all Overture layers.

User diary entries

Several user diary entries have been written about Overture Maps:

• 2024-06-09 - Exploring Overture Map Data by Kshitijraj Sharma
• 2023-11-14 - Overture Maps at State of the Map Europe 2023 by Zverik
• 2023-10-13 - A workflow for using Overture places data in OSM by mikelmaron
• 2023-08-08 - There are beach resorts inside subdivisions in my area, Overture data claims by UndueMarmot
• 2023-08-03 - Overture Places Data: Matching to OSM Tags by cbeddow