The Overture Maps Foundation today announced the launch of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS), which assigns a unique ID to geospatial entities, including 2.6 billion buildings, 61 million places, 321 million road segments, and almost 447 million addresses. The system will allow developers to more easily join datasets, share information, and onboard new data, … continue reading
The Overture Maps Foundation — a joint effort from Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom — to provide open map data — has announced a beta of its global map dataset. The dataset includes five base layers of data: Data on almost 54 million places of interest around the world 2.3 billion building footprints Information … continue reading
Last year, AWS, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom joined forces to launch the Overture Maps Foundation and create “reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data.” Now nearly eight months later the group is releasing its first open map dataset. The new dataset includes four data layers: places of interest (POIs), buildings, transportation network, and administrative boundaries. … continue reading
