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The Overture Maps Foundation is an open data mapping collaboration, launched in mid-December 2022 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. Its stated mission is "powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data." Overture founding members were Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom.[1][2][3]

The Overture project is intended to be complementary to the crowdsourced OpenStreetMap project, and the foundation encourages members to contribute data directly to the OSM project.[4]

Data will be released under the Community Database License Agreement – Permissive v2, unless required otherwise by licensing conflicts.[4]

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In April 2024, the Foundation released the first version of its dataset, as part of a beta test of its service.[5] The data is available in GeoParquet, an incubating Open Geospatial Consortium standard that adds interoperable geospatial types to Apache Parquet,[6] format via Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.[7][8]

The schema for the system is still under development.

References

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  1. ^ Sawers, Paul (2022-12-15). "Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom launch the Overture Maps Foundation to develop interoperable open map data". MSN. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  2. ^ Plumb, Taryn (2022-12-15). "Creating the ultimate smart map with new map data initiative launched by Linux Foundation". VentureBeat. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  3. ^ "Linux Foundation Announces Overture Maps Foundation to Build Interoperable Open Map Data". finance.yahoo.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  4. ^ a b "FAQ – Overture Maps Foundation". Archived from the original on 2022-12-16. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
  5. ^ Lardinois, Frederic (2024-04-16). "Overture Maps Foundation releases the first beta of its open map dataset". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  6. ^ "Geoparquet - Geospatial Data in Parquet". Retrieved 10 November 2024.
  7. ^ "Overture 2024-04-16-beta.0 Release Notes – Overture Maps Foundation". Retrieved 2024-04-17.
  8. ^ OvertureMaps/data, github.com, 2024-04-17, retrieved 2024-04-17
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