OvertureMaps · John McCall (lowlydba) · Apr 22, 2026 · Apr 22, 2026 · Apr 22, 2026 · Apr 22, 2026
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 ### Highlights
 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.
 
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 We would like feedback on the data, its usefulness and how it could be improved.  Please use this Github repo for discussions and feedback related to this data release.
 

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 More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 

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 ### Highlights
 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.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 

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 ### Highlights
 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.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 

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 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.
 
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 And we’d like to hear from you: [feedback and contributions](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/discussions) from folks working with our data and schema are crucial to our success.
 Thanks for joining us on this journey.

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 Last week Overture Maps [announced the beta release](https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-beta-of-its-first-open-map-dataset/) 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.
 
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 ## Making geospatial fast
 

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 The [May release](https://docs.overturemaps.org/release/latest) of Overture Maps includes new high-resolution land cover data _and_ new cartographic schema properties.
 
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 Our `land_cover` layer is vectorized data derived from the [European Space Agency’s 2020 WorldCover (10m) rasters](https://esa-worldcover.org/en). It's similar to the land cover layer in the [Daylight](https://daylightmap.org/2023/10/11/landcover.html) map distribution, but Overture Maps added higher-resolution data (zoom level 15) with more detail and land cover classes. You'll find 10 subtypes in the new data: snow, forest, urban, grass, crop, barren, wetland, moss, mangrove, and shrub.
 

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 ## Not a map
 

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 for 14 countries; we anticipate adding more address data each month, country by country, starting with
 Switzerland in the August release.
 
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 The [transportation theme](https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/transportation/) remains in beta and we expect to make significant changes over the next couple
 months. In this post, we'll give you a preview of three key improvements to the transportation schema in the August

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 In July, Overture [launched](https://docs.overturemaps.org/release/2024-07-22.0/#new-theme-addresses) our addresses theme
 with 200 million features in 14 countries. Since then,

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 Over the past several releases, Overture has been laying the groundwork to transition our transportation theme from beta to general availability (GA). This post provides a brief roadmap of the work we’ve done to reach that goal, along with a request for our community to continue testing the data and providing valuable feedback.
 
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 First, let’s talk about what GA means for the transportation theme. We have a few guiding principles:
 

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 ### Highlights
 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.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 

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 ### Highlights
 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.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 

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 ### Highlights
 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.
 
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 ### Breaking changes
 We changed `camelCase` to `snake_case` in the schema for properties to be more compatible with some SQL engines. This may break existing code and queries:

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 We encourage developers wishing to adopt Overture Maps base layers to begin evaluating and providing [feedback on the data, schema, and GERS IDs](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/discussions). Depending on the feedback from this release and subsequent releases, we anticipate moving to a production release in the next few months.
 
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 ### Breaking changes
 We renamed the `bbox` column fields to align with the upcoming [GeoParquet](https://geoparquet.org/) 1.1 spec.

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 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](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage developers wishing to adopt Overture Maps base layers to begin evaluating and providing [feedback on the data, schema, and GERS IDs](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/discussions). Depending on the feedback from this release and subsequent releases, we anticipate moving to a production release in the next few months.
 
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 ### Breaking changes
 

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 Overture's `2024-06-13-beta.0` release is available in GeoParquet and stored on AWS and Azure. You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS via any publicly-available Overture Maps repository on GitHub: 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS on one of our Overture GitHub repositories:
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS on one of our Overture GitHub repositories:
 

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 Overture's GeoParquet files are now released according to the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the `covering` metadata included.

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 :::note
 We are now releasing Overture's GeoParquet files in accordance with the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the covering metadata included.

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 We are now releasing Overture's GeoParquet files in accordance with the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the covering metadata included.

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions, report bugs, and provide feedback via our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema) repositories on GitHub. 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions, report bugs, and provide feedback via our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema) repositories on GitHub. 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussions forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 ## Overview
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussions forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussion forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 For this release only, we're providing Parquet files that map GERS IDs from the May release to the new GERS UUIDs in June release. These files are partitioned by `theme` and 'type' and can be accessed here: `s3://overturemaps-extras-us-west-2/june_to_may_id_mapping/`.
 
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 ## Exploring Overture data with GERS
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussion forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussion forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussion forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) 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 data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 ### New schema properties
 
-This month we added a new `license` sub-property within the `sources` property to more clearly link entities to the licensing information for their source data. This change affects all Overture themes, as `sources` is [a top-level property](https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/reference/#top-level-properties) in the Overture schema.
+This month we added a new `license` sub-property within the `sources` property to more clearly link entities to the licensing information for their source data. This change affects all Overture themes, as `sources` is [a top-level property](https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/) in the Overture schema.
 
 In the places theme, we added a new `operating_status` property, with all values set to "open". In future releases, we plan to update this property with data that indicates whether a place is "open", "permanently_closed", or "temporarily_closed".
 
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 ## Why We Needed This
 

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 :::danger[Shoutout!]
 

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