Overture Maps Foundation

aid: overture-maps
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/overture-maps/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Overture Maps Foundation
kind: company
description: Overture Maps Foundation is a Linux Foundation collaborative project that produces free, open, and interoperable
  map data. Overture publishes cloud-native GeoParquet datasets, on a regular release cadence, across six themes - Addresses,
  Base, Buildings, Divisions, Places, and Transportation - governed by a common conflation pipeline and an open schema. Rather
  than a hosted REST API, Overture distributes data through Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure (and via partner mirrors on BigQuery,
  Snowflake, Databricks, Fused, Wherobots), and provides an open Python CLI, a tile generator, and an Explorer site for developers.
  Founding members include Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Maps
- Geospatial
- Open Data
- GeoParquet
- Open Source
- Linux Foundation
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: overture-maps:addresses
  name: Overture Addresses Theme
  description: Open dataset of global address points and ranges, released as cloud-native GeoParquet alongside the other Overture
    themes.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/addresses/
  baseURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/addresses/
  tags:
  - Theme
  - Addresses
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/addresses/
- aid: overture-maps:base
  name: Overture Base Theme
  description: Open dataset of base map features - land cover, water, land use, infra - released as cloud-native GeoParquet
    to serve as a foundation for map rendering.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/base/
  baseURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/base/
  tags:
  - Theme
  - Base
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/base/
- aid: overture-maps:buildings
  name: Overture Buildings Theme
  description: Open dataset of global building footprints with attributes (heights, classes, sources), released as cloud-native
    GeoParquet.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/buildings/
  baseURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/buildings/
  tags:
  - Theme
  - Buildings
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/buildings/
- aid: overture-maps:divisions
  name: Overture Divisions Theme
  description: Open dataset of administrative and statistical boundaries (countries, regions, counties, localities, neighborhoods)
    released as cloud-native GeoParquet.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/divisions/
  baseURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/divisions/
  tags:
  - Theme
  - Divisions
  - Boundaries
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/divisions/
- aid: overture-maps:places
  name: Overture Places Theme
  description: Open dataset of global points of interest - businesses, landmarks, and services - released as cloud-native
    GeoParquet with categories, addresses, and confidence scoring.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/places/
  baseURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/places/
  tags:
  - Theme
  - Places
  - POI
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/places/
- aid: overture-maps:transportation
  name: Overture Transportation Theme
  description: Open dataset of the global road and transportation network (segments and connectors) released as cloud-native
    GeoParquet, suitable for routing and analytics.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/transportation/
  baseURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/transportation/
  tags:
  - Theme
  - Transportation
  - Routing
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/transportation/
- aid: overture-maps:schema
  name: Overture Schema
  description: Canonical open schema specification for all Overture themes, maintained in the OvertureMaps/schema GitHub repository
    and versioned with each data release.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/
  baseURL: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema
  tags:
  - Schema
  - Open Source
  - Specification
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/
- aid: overture-maps:data
  name: Overture Data Releases
  description: Repository of release notes, cloud paths (Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure), and access scripts for every Overture
    data release. Datasets are distributed as cloud-native GeoParquet and versioned per release.
  humanURL: https://docs.overturemaps.org/release/latest/
  baseURL: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data
  tags:
  - Releases
  - Open Data
  - GeoParquet
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/release/latest/
- aid: overture-maps:cli
  name: Overture Maps Python CLI
  description: Open-source Python command-line tool and library for downloading and querying Overture data. Maintained at
    OvertureMaps/overturemaps-py.
  humanURL: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overturemaps-py
  baseURL: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overturemaps-py
  tags:
  - CLI
  - Python
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overturemaps-py
- aid: overture-maps:explorer
  name: Overture Explorer
  description: Interactive web explorer for browsing and inspecting Overture features across themes and releases.
  humanURL: https://explore.overturemaps.org/
  baseURL: https://explore.overturemaps.org/
  tags:
  - Explorer
  - Web
  - Visualization
  properties:
  - type: Application
    url: https://explore.overturemaps.org/
- aid: overture-maps:tiles
  name: Overture Tiles
  description: Open tile-generation tooling that builds vector tilesets from Overture data for rendering and downstream applications.
  humanURL: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overture-tiles
  baseURL: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overture-tiles
  tags:
  - Tiles
  - Rendering
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overture-tiles
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/overture-maps-foundation
- type: Website
  url: https://overturemaps.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps
- type: Plans
  url: plans/overture-maps-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/overture-maps-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/overture-maps-finops.yml
- type: Integrations
  url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.overturemaps.org/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: Amazon S3
- name: Microsoft Azure
- name: BigQuery
- name: Snowflake
- name: Databricks
- name: Fused
- name: Wherobots
- name: DuckDB
- name: ArcGIS
- name: QGIS
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com