Last week Overture Maps announced the beta release of our schema and data. After months of hard work and steady improvements, we are nearing production-level stability. In a series of posts over the next few weeks -- starting with this one -- we’ll unpack the highlights and improvements you'll see in this release and beyond.
Welcome to the Overture Maps engineering blog! We're excited to tell the technical stories behind this big, exciting, ambitious, intensely collaborative project we’ve been working on for more than a year. The engineers building Overture Maps are eager to connect with our developer community. In the posts we publish in the coming months, you’ll hear from team members who work at Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, Esri, Development Seed, Precisely, and more. And we’d like to hear from you: feedback and contributions from folks working with our data and schema are crucial to our success. Thanks for joining us on this journey. We’re glad you’re here.
Here are the highlights for what's new and updated in the Overture Maps 2024-04-16-beta.0 release. The "beta" designation indicates the data and schema are largely stable.
Overture Maps 2024-04-16-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.
Here are the highlights of what's new and updated in Overture's 2024-03-12-alpha.0 release. This release includes a schema change from camelCase to snake_case for all property names and enumeration member names, an expansion of stable GERS IDs and incremental updates to the schema and datasets.
Overture 2024-02-15-alpha.0 is now available. This release includes several incremental improvements, addition of geopolitical boundary information in the Admins Theme and expansion of GERS IDs across several themes. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
Overture 2024-01-17-alpha.0 is now available. This release includes several incremental improvements, addition of geopolitical boundary information in the Admins Theme and expansion of GERS IDs across several themes. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
Overture 2023-12-14-alpha.0 is now available. This release includes several incremental improvements, the conflation of Google Open Buildings into the Building theme and expansion of GERS IDs across several themes. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
Overture 2023-11-14-alpha.0 is now available. This is an incremental release that includes several improvements to the data quality and coverage as well as updates for data currency. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
Overture 2023-10-19-alpha.0 is now available. This release includes several improvements to the data quality and coverage as well as updates for data currency. There are two new additions of note:
More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
Overture 2023-07-26-alpha.0 is a first release version of open map data, establishing a baseline for future releases by the Overture Maps Foundation. The data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme. Users should note that while Overture intends to release open map data on a regular cadence in the future, the date of subsequent releases has not been established yet.