2026-04-15 release notes
Overview
The 2026-04-15.0 release of Overture data and v1.16.0 of the Overture schema are now available. You can access the datasets, changelog, GERS registry, bridge files, and PMTiles on AWS and Azure at the paths listed below.
Deprecations
The categories property in the places schema is now deprecated and will be removed in the June 2026 release, replaced by the new basic_category and taxonomy properties. All three properties will be available until then to ease the transition for our users. The taxonomy documentation is here.
Getting the data and release artifacts
You can access this month's data and release artifacts by following the process outlined here. The paths to the data and release artifacts are listed below. We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps Discussion forum on GitHub. You can also file issues and report bugs in our data and schema repositories. If you have a suggestion for a new dataset or if you have data you'd like to contribute to Overture, you can email us at community@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
Release data
Microsoft Azure:
az://overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/release/2026-04-15.0/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2026-04-15.0/
Data changelog
Microsoft Azure:
az://overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/changelog/2026-04-15.0/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/changelog/2026-04-15.0/
Bridge files
Microsoft Azure:
az://overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/bridgefiles/2026-04-15.0/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/bridgefiles/2026-04-15.0/
GERS registry
Microsoft Azure:
az://overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/registry/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/registry/
PMTiles
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-extras-us-west-2/tiles/2026-04-15.0/
Theme-specific updates
The base, buildings, divisions, places, and transportation themes are in GA. The addresses theme is in alpha.
Addresses
- refreshed the NAD data source: now using v22
- de-duplicated data from the Državna geodetska uprava source, used for Croatian addresses
Base
- made minor, incremental updates to the data
Buildings
- removed ~98M Google and Zenodo sourced building features with small areas
Divisions
- no changes
Places
- confidence score updates: The March release contained unexpected changes to our confidence score normalization in Meta-sourced place data. This April release rolls back those changes. We have also increased the number of signals to our places data; ~10M places now receive updated confidence scores based on third-party signal data.
Transportation
- OSM Cut-Off Date: 2026-03-31
| Dataset | Feature Count | Length (km) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap | 744,477,991 | 93,712,547 |
| TomTom | 8,776,616 | 1,528,190 |
| Subtype | Length (km) |
|---|---|
| road | 91,800,093 |
| rail | 2,859,209 |
| water | 581,435 |
Change Summary
Count Changes
| Dataset | Type | Diff | Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TomTom | segment | 71,266.00 | 0.82% |
| OpenStreetMap | connector | 1,417,834.00 | 0.35% |
| OpenStreetMap | segment | 823,258.00 | 0.25% |
Length Changes
| Subtype | Diff (km) | Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|
| road | 203,876.72 | 0.22% |
| rail | 3,115.22 | 0.11% |
| water | 460.68 | 0.08% |
Schema changelog
The changelog for Overture schema v1.16.0 is here.
Attribution
You'll find information about attribution and licensing here.