OvertureMaps · Dana Bauer (danabauer) · Jun 21, 2025 · Jun 21, 2025 · Jun 21, 2025 · Jun 21, 2025
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 ### Highlights
 Overture `2023-07-26-alpha.0` is a first release version of open map data, establishing a baseline for future releases by the Overture Maps Foundation. The data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme.  Users should note that while Overture intends to release open map data on a regular cadence in the future, the date of subsequent releases has not been established yet.
 
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 We would like feedback on the data, its usefulness and how it could be improved.  Please use this Github repo for discussions and feedback related to this data release.
 
 Overture `2023-07-26-alpha.0` is formatted in the Overture Maps schema described here. It is available in cloud-native Parquet and stored on AWS and Azure.

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 More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 
 This data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme. While Overture intends to release open map data on a regular cadence in the future, the date of subsequent releases has not yet been established.

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 ### Highlights
 Overture `2023-11-14-alpha.0` is now available. This is an incremental release that includes several improvements to the data quality and coverage as well as updates for data currency. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 
 This data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme. While Overture intends to release open map data on a regular cadence in the future, the date of subsequent releases has not yet been established.

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 ### Highlights
 Overture `2023-12-14-alpha.0` is now available. This release includes several incremental improvements, the conflation of Google Open Buildings into the Building theme and expansion of GERS IDs across several themes. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 
 This data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme.

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 ---
-title: Welcome!
+title: Welcome to the Overture Maps engineering blog!
 ---
 
 Welcome to the Overture Maps engineering blog! We're excited to tell the technical stories behind this big, exciting, ambitious, intensely collaborative project we’ve been [working on for more than a year](https://overturemaps.org/looking-forward-to-2024/). The engineers building Overture Maps are eager to connect with our developer community. In the posts we publish in the coming months, you’ll hear from team members who work at Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, TomTom, Esri, Development Seed, Precisely, and more. And we’d like to hear from you: [feedback and contributions](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/discussions) from folks working with our data and schema are crucial to our success. Thanks for joining us on this journey. We’re glad you’re here. 
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 ---
 title: Exploring our beta release
 description: Highlights from Overture Maps beta release
+tags:
+  - releases
+  - developer-tools
+  - geoparquet
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
 
 Last week Overture Maps [announced the beta release](https://overturemaps.org/overture-maps-foundation-releases-beta-of-its-first-open-map-dataset/) of our schema and data. After months of hard work and steady improvements, we are nearing production-level stability. In a series of posts over the next few weeks -- starting with this one -- we’ll unpack the highlights and improvements you'll see in this release and beyond. 
 
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 ## Making geospatial fast
 The first thing you'll notice is how much faster you can [pull Overture Maps data out of the cloud](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/locally/). We made this possible by working closely with open-source collaborators on the repartitioning and [spatial optimization](https://cloudnativegeo.org/blog/2024/03/coming-soon-geoparquet-1.1/) of our GeoParquet files. Meanwhile, our friends at DuckDB, one of our favorite SQL tools, [added a feature](https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/pull/10314) that improves the performance of queries with bounding boxes.
 

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 ---
 title: Land cover is live
+tags:
+  - releases
+  - base
 ---
 
 ![land cover gif](/img/blog/lc.gif)
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 The [May release](https://docs.overturemaps.org/release/latest) of Overture Maps includes new high-resolution land cover data *and* new cartographic schema properties.
 
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 Our `land_cover` layer is vectorized data derived from the [European Space Agency’s 2020 WorldCover (10m) rasters](https://esa-worldcover.org/en). It's similar to the land cover layer in the [Daylight](https://daylightmap.org/2023/10/11/landcover.html) map distribution, but Overture Maps added higher-resolution data (zoom level 15) with more detail and land cover classes. You'll find 10 subtypes in the new data: snow, forest, urban, grass, crop, barren, wetland, moss, mangrove, and shrub. 
 
 Our May release also includes [schema properties](https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/reference/base/land_cover/) that offer cartographic "hints" for optimal use of Overture Maps data in mapmaking. We added `min_zoom` and `max_zoom` to define the recommended zooms for each resolution of land cover, using the common “slippy maps” zoom level specification. This is a first step toward improving the user experience for mapmakers. We plan to expand these properties in future releases of Overture Maps data.

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 ---
 title: Exploring Overture data, no SQL required
+tags:
+  - developer-tools
 ---
 
 Overture has launched a new browser-based tool to give users a no-code option to interact with our data. The Explore website is now the quickest way to get started with Overture, no SQL required: [https://explore.overturemaps.org](https://explore.overturemaps.org/#13.01/39.95692/-75.15583)
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 |:--:| 
 | *Checking out ["Lion Crushing a Serpent"](https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/lion-crushing-a-serpent/) in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Park* |
 
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 ## Not a map 
 
 The Explore tool might look like a map, but we prefer to think of it as an x-ray data inspector. We’ve punted on making cartographic decisions in favor of displaying all of Overture’s themes, all at once: addresses, base, buildings, divisions, places, and transportation. Our users are coming at the data with different perspectives and goals, and we want to provide as much information as possible. We also want to stoke your curiosity and inspire you to ask new questions of Overture data. 

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 ---
 title: What to expect in Overture’s August release
+tags:
+  - releases
+  - addresses
+  - base
+  - buildings
+  - divisions
+  - places
+  - transportation
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 for 14 countries; we anticipate adding more address data each month, country by country, starting with
 Switzerland in the August release.
 
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 The [transportation theme](https://docs.overturemaps.org/guides/transportation/) remains in beta and we expect to make significant changes over the next couple
 months. In this post, we'll give you a preview of three key improvements to the transportation schema in the August
 release, **which will be available next week**.

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 ---
 title: What to expect in Overture’s October release
-description: Overture Maps Data Blog
+tags:
+  - releases
+  - addresses
+  - buildings
 ---
 
 This week Overture is [releasing](https://docs.overturemaps.org/release/latest/) datasets that include new 

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 ---
 title: Transportation theme navigates to GA
+tags:
+  - releases
+  - transportation
 ---
 
 Over the past several releases, Overture has been laying the groundwork to transition our transportation theme from beta to general availability (GA). This post provides a brief roadmap of the work we’ve done to reach that goal, along with a request for our community to continue testing the data and providing valuable feedback.
 
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 First, let’s talk about what GA means for the transportation theme. We have a few guiding principles:
 
 1. There are no "trust violations" in the schema and data. It needs to "just work" when a developer writes code based on our schema and documentation.

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 ### Highlights
 Overture `2024-01-17-alpha.0` is now available. This release includes several incremental improvements, addition of geopolitical boundary information in the Admins Theme and expansion of GERS IDs across several themes. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 
 This data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme.

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 ### Highlights
 Overture `2024-02-15-alpha.0` is now available. This release includes several incremental improvements, addition of geopolitical boundary information in the Admins Theme and expansion of GERS IDs across several themes. More information about these additions is available in the relevant sections below.
 
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 This data is formatted in the Overture Data Schema unless otherwise noted.
 
 This data is available for use under the designated licenses for each theme.

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 ### Highlights
 Here are the highlights of what's new and updated in Overture's `2024-03-12-alpha.0` release. This release includes a schema change from `camelCase` to `snake_case` for all property names and enumeration member names, an expansion of stable GERS IDs and incremental updates to the schema and datasets.
 
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 ### Breaking changes
 We changed `camelCase` to `snake_case` in the schema for properties to be more compatible with some SQL engines. This may break existing code and queries:
 

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 We encourage developers wishing to adopt Overture Maps base layers to begin evaluating and providing [feedback on the data, schema, and GERS IDs](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/discussions). Depending on the feedback from this release and subsequent releases, we anticipate moving to a production release in the next few months.
 
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 ### Breaking changes
 We renamed the `bbox` column fields to align with the upcoming [GeoParquet](https://geoparquet.org/) 1.1 spec.
 

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 Overture Maps `2024-05-16-beta.0` is available in GeoParquet and stored on AWS and Azure. Users can select the data of interest and download it by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage developers wishing to adopt Overture Maps base layers to begin evaluating and providing [feedback on the data, schema, and GERS IDs](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/discussions). Depending on the feedback from this release and subsequent releases, we anticipate moving to a production release in the next few months.
 
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 ### Breaking changes
 
 In the `buildings` theme, we promoted `class` to `subtype` and introduced new `class` values. This allows for more detail in a feature. Parking garages, for example, now have the attributes: `subtype=transportation` and `class=parking`.

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 ```
 :::
 
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 Overture's `2024-06-13-beta.0` release is available in GeoParquet and stored on AWS and Azure. You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS via any publicly-available Overture Maps repository on GitHub: 

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 ---
-title: 2024-07-22.0
+title: 2024-07-22.0 release notes
 slug: 2024-07-22.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-07-22.0
 ```
 
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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS on one of our Overture GitHub repositories:
 
 - [Schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema)

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 ---
-title: 2024-08-20.0
+title: 2024-08-20.0 release notes
 slug: 2024-08-20.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-08-20.0
 ```
 
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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS on one of our Overture GitHub repositories:
 
 - [Schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema)

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 ---
-title: 2024-09-18.0
+title: 2024-09-18.0 release notes
 slug: 2024-09-18.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 **The `2024-09-18.0` release of Overture data is now available.**  We are still on `v.1.1.0` of the Overture schema, as we did not cut a new schema version with this data release. The base, buildings, divisions, and places themes are stable, which means the only changes to these themes are data improvements and bug fixes. We added new road data from TomTom, mostly in Saudi Arabia, to the transportation theme (beta). To the addresses theme (alpha) we added new data for Finland and Chile, and we replaced NAD-sourced address features in New York City with addresses from NYC Open Data. 
 
-:::note
-Overture's GeoParquet files are now released according to the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the `covering` metadata included.
-:::
-
 The datasets are available as GeoParquet files stored on both AWS and Azure. 
 The release paths are:
 
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 ```
 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-09-18.0
 ```
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+:::note
+Overture's GeoParquet files are now released according to the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the `covering` metadata included.
+:::
 
 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS on one of our Overture GitHub repositories:
 

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 ---
-title: 2024-10-23.0
+title: 2024-10-23.0 release notes
 slug: 2024-10-23.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 ```
 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-10-23.0
 ```
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 :::note
 We are now releasing Overture's GeoParquet files in accordance with the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the covering metadata included.
 :::

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 ---
-title: 2024-11-13.0
+title: 2024-11-13.0 release notes
 slug: 2024-11-13.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 ```
 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-11-13.0
 ```
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 :::note
 We are now releasing Overture's GeoParquet files in accordance with the [GeoParquet v1.1.0 specification](https://geoparquet.org/releases/v1.1.0/), with the covering metadata included.
 :::

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 ---
-title: 2024-12-18.0
-slug: 2024-12-18.0
+title: 2024-12-18.0 release notes
+slug: 2024-12-18.0 
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 ```
 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2024-12-18.0
 ```
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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions, report bugs, and provide feedback via our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema) repositories on GitHub. If you have a suggestion for a new dataset or if you have data you'd like to contribute to Overture, you can email us at data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 

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 ---
-title: 2025-01-22.0
+title: 2025-01-22.0 release notes
 slug: 2025-01-22.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2025-01-22.0
 ```
 
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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions, report bugs, and provide feedback via our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema) repositories on GitHub. If you have a suggestion for a new dataset or if you have data you'd like to contribute to Overture, you can email us at data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 
 

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 ---
-title: 2025-02-19.0
+title: 2025-02-19.0 release notes
 slug: 2025-02-19.0
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 s3://overturemaps-us-west-2/release/2025-02-19.0
 ```
 
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 You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](/getting-data). We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on the Overture Maps [Discussions forum on GitHub](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions). You can also file issues and report bugs in our [data](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/data/issues) and [schema](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/issues) repositories. If you have a suggestion for a new dataset or if you have data you'd like to contribute to Overture, you can email us at data@overturemaps.org. We’d love to hear from you.
 
 

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 ---
-title: 2025-03-19.1
+title: 2025-03-19.1 release notes
 slug: 2025-03-19.1
+tags:
+  - releases
 ---
 import Tabs from '@theme/Tabs';
 import TabItem from '@theme/TabItem';
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 ## Overview
 
 **The `2025-03-19.0` release of Overture data and `v1.7.0` of the Overture schema are now available.**
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     Overture's `2024-06-13-beta.0` release is available in GeoParquet and stored on AWS and Azure. You can access the datasets by following the process outlined [here](https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/). We encourage users to report bugs and provide feedback on the data, schema, and GERS via any publicly-available Overture Maps repository on GitHub:
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