# Overture Maps Foundation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/overture-maps/  
**Website:** https://overturemaps.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

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.

## Kin Score — 18.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (11)

- **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.

## Security (1)

- **Overture Maps Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Overture Maps Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Maps, Geospatial, Open Data, GeoParquet, Open-Source, Linux Foundation

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/overture-maps/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.