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Overture Maps Foundation

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.

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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.123

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 Data 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.78

The schema for the system is still under development.

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  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. "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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