Overture Maps Foundation

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.

Overture Maps Foundation publishes 11 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Maps, Geospatial, Open Data, GeoParquet, and Open-Source.

Overture Maps Foundation’s developer surface includes documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, and 12 more developer resources.

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20.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas · CC-BY-4.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

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11 APIs

Maps Geospatial Open Data GeoParquet Open-Source Linux Foundation

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Composite quality — 20.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 11

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Overture Addresses Theme

Open dataset of global address points and ranges, released as cloud-native GeoParquet alongside the other Overture themes.

Overture Base Theme

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.

Overture Buildings Theme

Open dataset of global building footprints with attributes (heights, classes, sources), released as cloud-native GeoParquet.

Overture Divisions Theme

Open dataset of administrative and statistical boundaries (countries, regions, counties, localities, neighborhoods) released as cloud-native GeoParquet.

Overture Places Theme

Open dataset of global points of interest - businesses, landmarks, and services - released as cloud-native GeoParquet with categories, addresses, and confidence scoring.

Overture Transportation Theme

Open dataset of the global road and transportation network (segments and connectors) released as cloud-native GeoParquet, suitable for routing and analytics.

Overture Schema

Canonical open schema specification for all Overture themes, maintained in the OvertureMaps/schema GitHub repository and versioned with each data release.

Overture Data Releases

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...

Overture Maps Python CLI

Open-source Python command-line tool and library for downloading and querying Overture data. Maintained at OvertureMaps/overturemaps-py.

Overture Explorer

Interactive web explorer for browsing and inspecting Overture features across themes and releases.

Overture Tiles

Open tile-generation tooling that builds vector tilesets from Overture data for rendering and downstream applications.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Overture Maps Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Overture Maps Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Overture Maps Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Overture Maps Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

CodeOfConduct

CodeOfConduct

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

IssueTracker

Releases

Releases

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

License

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license: CC-BY-4.0
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - license
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/overture-maps.png
tags:
- Maps
- Geospatial
- Open Data
- GeoParquet
- Open-Source
- Linux Foundation
tags_raw:
- Maps
- Geospatial
- Open Data
- GeoParquet
- Open Source
- Linux Foundation
created: '2026-05-23'
modified: '2026-05-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - Tiles
  - Rendering
  - Open Source
  properties:
  - type: Repository
    url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overture-tiles
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/releases
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/.github/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: CC-BY-4.0
  url: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/overture-maps-domain-security.yml
- 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
- url: https://overturemaps.org/blog/
  type: Blog
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

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