2026-05-20 release notes
Overview
The 2026-05-20.0 release of Overture data and v1.17.0 of the Overture schema are now available. This month we added BrightQuery as a new POI data provider, introducing more than 250,000 new places in the United States. We made minor changes to the schema.
Deprecations
The categories property in the places schema has been deprecated and will be removed in the September 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 in our docs. 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/2026-05-20.0/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2026-05-20.0/
Data changelog
Microsoft Azure:
az://overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/changelog/2026-05-20.0/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/changelog/2026-05-20.0/
Bridge files
Microsoft Azure:
az://overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/bridgefiles/2026-05-20.0/
Amazon S3:
s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/bridgefiles/2026-05-20.0/
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/2026-05-20.0/
Theme-specific updates
The base, buildings, divisions, places, and transportation themes are in GA. The addresses theme is in alpha.
Addresses
- made minor, incremental updates to the data
Base
- made minor, incremental updates to the data
Buildings
- made minor, incremental updates to the data
Divisions
- no changes, re-promoted the data from the March release
Places
- added BrightQuery as a new POI data provider, introducing +250k new US locations and +1 million in signals to existing features
- changed the default value of the
operating_statusproperty to null instead of open - updates to default confidence values of existing providers
Transportation
- OSM Cut-Off Date:
2026-05-10
| Dataset | Feature Count | Length (km) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap | 748,646,121 | 94,033,027 |
| TomTom | 8,875,123 | 1,537,447 |
| Subtype | Length (km) |
|---|---|
| road | 92,121,986 |
| rail | 2,864,434 |
| water | 584,055 |
Change Summary
Count Changes
| Dataset | Type | Diff | Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| TomTom | segment | 116,650 | 1.33% |
| OpenStreetMap | connector | 2,209,065 | 0.54% |
| OpenStreetMap | segment | 1,290,304 | 0.38% |
Length Changes
| Subtype | Diff (km) | Diff (%) |
|---|---|---|
| road | 267,644.99 | 0.29% |
| rail | 4,446.43 | 0.16% |
| water | 2,750.14 | 0.47% |
Schema changelog
The changelog for Overture schema v1.17.0 is here.
Attribution
You'll find information about attribution and licensing here.