Overview​

The 2024-10-23.0 release of Overture data and v1.2.0 of the Overture schema are now available. As part of Overture's mission to improve data quality and coverage and to expand the number of sources we use to make our datasets, we added in this release address data for several new countries, transportation data in Saudi Arabia and Italy from TomTom, and building height data from Microsoft and Esri Community Maps contributors.

The October release is available as GeoParquet files stored on both AWS and Azure. The release paths are:

Microsoft Azure:​

wasbs://release@overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/2024-10-23.0

Amazon S3:​

s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-10-23.0

This week Overture is releasing datasets that include new addresses across ten countries, new road features in Saudi Arabia and Italy from TomTom, and new building height data from Microsoft and Esri Community Maps contributors. Here's a preview of what you'll find in our October release.

Addresses around the world​

H3 coverage map of Overture addresses

Overview​

The 2024-09-18.0 release of Overture data is now available. We are still on v.1.1.0 of the Overture schema, as we did not cut a new schema version with this data release. The base, buildings, divisions, and places themes are stable, which means the only changes to these themes are data improvements and bug fixes. We added new road data from TomTom, mostly in Saudi Arabia, to the transportation theme (beta). To the addresses theme (alpha) we added new data for Finland and Chile, and we replaced NAD-sourced address features in New York City with addresses from NYC Open Data.

The datasets are available as GeoParquet files stored on both AWS and Azure. The release paths are:

Microsoft Azure:​

wasbs://release@overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/2024-09-18.0

Amazon S3:​

s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-09-18.0

Overview​

Overture's 2024-08-20.0 data release is now available. The base, buildings, divisions, and places themes are stable, which means the only changes this month are data improvements and bug fixes. The transportation theme remains in beta and we have made several significant changes to the schema in this release. The addresses theme is in alpha.

The datasets are available as GeoParquet files stored on both AWS and Azure. The release paths are:

Microsoft Azure:​

wasbs://release@overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/2024-08-20.0

Amazon S3:​

s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-08-20.0

Last month we released v1.0.0 of the Overture schema and “general availability” versions of four themes: base, buildings, divisions, and places. Our addresses theme launched in alpha with 200 million addresses for 14 countries; we anticipate adding more address data each month, country by country, starting with Switzerland in the August release.

Overture has launched a new browser-based tool to give users a no-code option to interact with our data. The Explore website is now the quickest way to get started with Overture, no SQL required: https://explore.overturemaps.org

Checking out "Lion Crushing a Serpent" in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Park

Overview​

Overture's 2024-07-22.0 data release and v1.0.0 of the schema are now available. The base, buildings, divisions, and places themes have reached General Availability (GA). The transportation theme remains in beta, and users can anticipate additional breaking changes to the transportation schema. Also in this release, we launched a new theme called addresses, available in alpha. We will be making significant changes to the addresses schema and updating and adding to the addresses data over the next several months.

The datasets are available as GeoParquet files stored on AWS and Azure. The release paths are:

Microsoft Azure:​

wasbs://release@overturemapswestus2.blob.core.windows.net/2024-07-22.0

Amazon S3:​

s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-07-22.0

Mapmakers rejoice!​

The May release of Overture Maps includes new high-resolution land cover data and new cartographic schema properties.

Here's what's new and updated in the Overture Maps 2024-05-16-beta.0 release. The "beta" designation indicates the data and schema are largely stable.

Overture Maps 2024-05-16-beta.0 is available in GeoParquet and stored on AWS and Azure. Users can select the data of interest and download it by following the process outlined here. We encourage developers wishing to adopt Overture Maps base layers to begin evaluating and providing feedback on the data, schema, and GERS IDs. Depending on the feedback from this release and subsequent releases, we anticipate moving to a production release in the next few months.