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We’re thrilled to welcome William Mortenson as our new Executive Director!

He brings 25+ years of geospatial experience to advance open, interoperable map data and collaboration across the industry.

🔗 Read the full announcement: overturemaps.org/announcement...
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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📢 Overture 2025-09-24.0 is now live.

📌 6M new POIs from Foursquare OS Places
🎯 Better confidence scores w/ signal patches
🚉 Expanded TomTom data + coverage in 🇮🇹🇵🇹🇲🇽🇪🇬🇸🇪🇮🇩
📐 New schema properties for clarity & usability

Get the #opendata: docs.overturemaps.org/blog/2025/09...
September 24, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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We’re honored to share that the #OvertureMaps has received the GeoGov Summit Innovation in Public-Private Partnerships Award. 🏆

A heartfelt thank you to our community. Your contributions make Overture possible. 👏 And thank you to Geospatial World Forum for the recognition.
September 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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📢 Overture 2025-08-20.0 is now live.

New Building data from Esri and Vancouver, plus expanded Base theme with quay, railway, and artwork classes. A minor patch for Microsoft ML buildings will follow shortly.

Get the open data: docs.overturemaps.org/blog/2025/08...
August 21, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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That’s a wrap on EsriUC 2025!

Thanks to everyone who visited Overture Maps, joined the Passport Adventure with AWS, Meta, Maxar, TomTom, Nearmap & con terra, and congrats to our Capybara winners 🧸✨

Grateful for this amazing community 💛
July 19, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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A walkthrough of the full GERS framework: UUIDs, Registry, Changelogs, and bridge files.

See how:
🆔 UUID lookups in the Registry
📊 Changelog analysis for tracking changes
🌉 Bridge files to Facebook pages
🗺️ Division hierarchy queries

👉 Dive in:https://docs.overturemaps.org/gers/gers-tutorial/
July 2, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Ready to connect your data to GERS? Our new tutorial shows you how

Step-by-step guide covering:
🎯 Spatial matching techniques
🔧 Data enrichment with GERS IDs
🌉 Creating your own bridge files
🔄 Maintenance workflows

Start now: docs.overturemaps.org/gers/gers-tu...
July 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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🗺️ Industry leaders agree: #GERS is changing how we integrate spatial data, and the impact is real.

Microsoft, Esri, and Precisely share how GERS is helping eliminate costly data conflation and enabling faster, smarter decisions.

📣 Read the announcement: overturemaps.org/announcement...
June 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Tired of spending more time prepping data than using it? #GERS eliminates that problem by making data integration faster and cheaper.

@addresscloud.bsky.social processes millions of buildings in minutes. Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, & Esri are on board.

Learn how: overturemaps.org/resources/in...
June 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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📢 Overture 2025-06-25.0 is live!

🔑 Switched to UUIDs. Also in this release:
📍 New address data (🇬🇱 🇸🇬 🇺🇸)
🏠 Vancouver buildings 🇨🇦
📌 64M+ places from Krick
🚉 Turkey transport via TomTom
🌎Base: broader coverage & features

🔗 Get the #opendata: overturemaps.org/download
June 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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📢 Overture 2025-05-21.0 is now live!

This update enhances data across base, buildings, divisions, and more — and introduces PinMeTo as a new Places data provider.

🔗 Get the #opendata: docs.overturemaps.org/release/late...
May 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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📍 🌏 Business listings that reach billions

See how krick.com & pinmeto are contributing to #OvertureMaps and reaching billions of users across Meta, TomTom, Esri, and beyond.

📖 Read the blog by Overture’s VP Product Albi Wiedersberg: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/re...
May 21, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🌐 Join Overture Maps Foundation at #CNG2025!

We’re excited to connect with the geospatial community and dive into the latest in cloud-native mapping. Don’t miss sessions from the #OvertureMaps team — check the agenda and see you there!

🔗 overturemaps.org/events/cng-conference-2025
April 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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📢 Overture 2025-04-23.0 is now live!

This month’s release includes key updates across the board:

📍 Addresses: New data in Florida
🌍 Base: Golf course data
🏠 Buildings: Data fixes and updates
🗺️ Divisions: New properties

🔗 Get the open data: docs.overturemaps.org/release/late...
April 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Yesterday at #GWF2025, we talked about solving spatial data interoperability with #GERS.

Today, see it in action.
🕒 13:30 CET | Hall Bonn
📍 Overture GERS Workshop

Hear from TomTom, Uber, Precisely & the European Commission.

🔗 geospatialworld.net/gwf/2025/ove...
April 24, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📍 Join us today at #GWF2025! Mainstage Panel 6 | 15:15 CET

Managing the explosion of spatial data: How open data can help structure data across sectors.

With Overture Maps, Meta, TomTom, and Uber about open data, interoperability & new models for collaboration.
April 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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At #GWF2025 Executive Round Table, Steering Co member Mike Harrell (TomTom ) and ED Marc Prioleau highlighted why open, shared geospatial data is critical.

✅ The need for a common way to communicate data like #GERS
✅ #Opendata as an organizing system for real-world impact.
April 22, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Attending #GWF2025?

Come meet the #OvertureMaps team today! 👋

We’re here to talk about open data, GERS, data integration, and how to get involved.

📍 Let’s connect!
April 22, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Heading to #GWF2025 in Madrid?

Don’t miss our sessions on collaborative mapping, open data, and how GERS is helping organizations integrate spatial data at scale.

Meet Overture Maps team and members from Meta, Precisely, TomTom, and Uber.

overturemaps.org/event/overtu...
April 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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That’s a wrap on the 2025 Overture Member Summit!

This week reminded us: the power of open data is in the people. Grateful for this community and the work ahead.

Onward.🥂
April 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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That’s a wrap on Day 2 — and what a day!

From pipelines to data quality, today's sessions reminded us just how far Overture Maps has come in a year, and how much talent and dedication is behind every piece of it.

Huge thanks to everyone moving these critical parts forward.✨
April 11, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Behind our data is a system — and today we’re taking a closer look.

From data quality to the Places theme, today’s focus is on how we make #OvertureMaps work, scale, and stay reliable.

Let’s dig in. ⚙️

#overturesummit
April 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Day 1 = ✅

From keynotes to hallway convos, Day 1 of the Overture Member Summit reminded us why this community is so special. Thanks to everyone who showed up, spoke up, and made the day what it was.

Let’s do it all again tomorrow. 👏

#OvertureSummit
April 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Geospatial's hidden tax: organizations spend more 💰 conflating data than buying it.

Our new blog recaps the #GeoBuiz2025 panel on how #OvertureMaps can help eliminate the 'conflation tax' on geospatial data through #GERS and open collaboration.

Read more: overturemaps.org/blog/2025/ov...
April 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🌍 Meta’s basemaps are now powered by Overture!

Meta has transitioned its global basemaps to #OvertureMaps’ open data, improving accuracy, validation, and industry collaboration.

Read the case study: overturemaps.org/case-study/2...
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM