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 confirm that it contains 59 million listings from around the world—I filtered to just places in my local town and a spot check showed that recently opened businesses (last 12 months) were present and the details all looked accurate.
The places data is licensed under “Community Data License Agreement – Permissive” which looks like the only restriction is that you have to include that license when you further share the data.
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