Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset

Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset

The Overture Maps Foundation is a collaboration lead by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom dedicated to producing "reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data".

Yesterday they put out their first release and it's pretty astonishing: four different layers of geodata, covering Places of Interest (shops, restaurants, attractions etc), administrative boundaries, building outlines and transportation networks.

The data is available as Parquet. I just downloaded the 8GB places dataset and can …

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