Announcements

BrightQuery Joins Overture Maps Foundation to Expand Open Places Data Coverage

New General Member to provide large-scale global entity and locations dataset spanning 324M organizations and 512M locations SAN FRANCISCO, February 25, 2026 — Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to…

Overture Maps Foundation Names William Mortenson as New Executive Director

Experienced geospatial executive with a strong background in national mapping policies will lead Overture's next phase of expansion and adoption SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — November 3, 2025 — Overture Maps…

Overture Maps Launches GERS, a Global Standard for Interoperable Geospatial IDs, to Drive Data Interoperability

Unique IDs make it easier and cheaper to attach data to geospatial entities, such as buildings, streets, places, etc. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—June 25, 2025 — The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative…

Overture Maps Foundation Releases General Availability of Transportation Dataset

Transportation and road networks mark one of most widely used map datasets with strategic importance across many industries and humanitarian efforts SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, 2024 — The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative…

Overture Maps Foundation Releases General Availability of its Open Maps Datasets

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products, today announced the General Availability (GA) of several of its global open maps datasets, paving…

Open Map Data from Overture Maps Foundation Draws More Industries and Companies

Foundation’s growth shows industries such as automotive, spatial imaging, and consumer all want open map data SAN FRANCISCO -- May 14, 2024 – The Overture Maps Foundation (Overture), a collaborative effort to…

Overture Map Data Now Available in BigQuery and Snowflake

Following the release of our first Beta release we are very happy to announce that, with support from CARTO, it is now possible to access all Overture data in Google…

Overture Maps Foundation Releases Beta of Its First Open Map Dataset

Production-ready 1.0 version expected to unleash untold mapping services and product innovations SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — April 16, 2024 — The Overture Maps Foundation (Overture), a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable…

Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset

Initial dataset establishes a baseline for four important layers of open map data, including newly released open data for nearly 60 million places worldwide.