Base

Overview

The Overture Maps base theme provides the land and water features that are necessary to render a complete basemap. These features are currently derived from the Daylight Earth Tables schema and include the Daylight Coastlines.

Schema design choices

• basic classification of features into type, subtype and class where appropriate.
• parsing and normalization of common OSM tags, such as height and ele.
• extraction of consistent OSM tags, such as wikidata to top-level properties.
• direct pass-through of remaining relevant OSM tags.

Current feature types

• infrastructure: Infrastructure features such as communication towers and lines, piers, and bridges.
• land: physical representations of land surfaces. Global land derived from the inverse of OSM Coastlines. Translates natural tags from OpenStreetMap.
• land_use: classifications of the human use of a section of land. Translates landuse from OpenStreetMap tag from OpenStreetMap.
• water: physical representations of inland and ocean marine surfaces. Translates natural and waterway tags from OpenStreetMap.

Schema reference

• Explore the schema for the infrastructure feature type.
• Explore the schema for the land feature type.
• Explore the schema for the land use feature type.
• Explore the schema for the water feature type.