🚀 We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Overture's Global Entity Reference System (#GERS). GERS makes data sharing, onboarding, and joining easier via common, open, accessible IDs. With GERS, organizations can: ⏱️ Cut the time and cost of data integration 🔓 Avoid vendor lock-in with fully open, global, and entity-based IDs 🧩 Link rich datasets with simple joins, not complex conflations 🔗 Learn more in our press release: https://hubs.la/Q03tzLmQ0
Overture Maps Foundation
Technology, Information and Internet
Collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data for mapping services worldwide
About us
The Overture Maps Foundation is a collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data to power mapping and location services worldwide. Under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation, the Overture Maps Foundation is open to companies of all sizes with a common interest in open map data. To contact us, please email: info@overturemaps.org
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https://overturemaps.org
External link for Overture Maps Foundation
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 11-50 employees
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- mapping, cartography, maps, location services, and open source
Employees at Overture Maps Foundation
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We’re honored to share that the Overture Maps Foundation has received the GeoGov Summit Innovation in Public-Private Partnerships Award. 🏆 This recognition belongs to our entire ecosystem of more than 40 members across industries. Together, we’re proving what’s possible when diverse organizations collaborate to build shared, scalable geospatial infrastructure that benefits everyone. A heartfelt thank you to all our members, contributors, and the broader community for your support, feedback, and belief in this work. Your contributions make Overture possible. And thank you to Geospatial World Forum (GWF) for the recognition. When we build together, nothing is ever too hard. Onward! 🥂 #GERS #OpenData #OvertureMaps
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If you’re heading to FOSS4G 2025 Auckland, don’t miss our CTO Amy Rose's session on building open map foundations + #GERS to make data easier to use and connect.
📢Announcing our keynote speakers! We have secured 4 superb speakers for FOSS4G 2025; seriously, they rock. Over the next few days we'll be introducing you to them. Meet Amy Rose. Currently she is being an absolute champion in her position of CTO at Overture Maps Foundation. She is responsible for guiding Overture's #technical roadmap, #infrastructure #design, and #data interoperability #strategy. Her work in the #geospatial domain spans nearly 30 years, designing, building, and deploying geospatial data and technology solutions for human #health and #security, #environmental remediation, #logistics, and #transportation planning projects. Hear Amy's talk in Auckland this Nov - https://lnkd.in/gwCUbt2r
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Excited to see Drew Breunig from #OvertureMaps join this fireside chat on the future of Geo + AI session. RSVP today 👇
🔥 Fireside Chat: The Future of Geo + AI 🔥 Don’t miss this ask-me-anything session at the Accelerate Climate Innovation with Earth Data & AI workshops and innovation showcase — hosted by Wherobots, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Earthmover and 9Zero. Featuring: 🧭 Drew Breunig, Overture Maps Foundation 🌎 Joe Hamman, Co-founder at Earthmover 🗺️ Mo Sarwat, CEO at Wherobots When: September 15 in San Francisco 👉 RSVP here: https://lu.ma/m5kpakd4
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Overture Maps Foundation reposted this
I'll be talking about Overture Maps Foundation, data standards, and why we need to standardize "place" like we did time. (Spoiler: it's the key to making the geospatial ecosystem bigger and better!)
What if “place” were as easy to work with as “time”? Join us on Sept 11 at 10am PT | 1 pm ET for a live webinar with Drew Breunig, as he revisits his #CNG2025 talk on the challenge—and necessity—of standardizing how we define "place". Drew will explore how aligning #geospatial data can unlock its full value, and what it would take to make connecting datasets seamless. This webinar is free + open to all. Bring your questions and curiosity. ▪️ Register here: https://lnkd.in/eENgrq77
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Welcome our new member OpenTravel Alliance 👏 By combining Overture’s Global Entity Reference System (#GERS) and open data with OpenTravel’s industry standards, we’re making it easier for the travel sector to share accurate, consistent location information. This is a big step toward an open, interoperable travel ecosystem that unlocks better booking experiences, richer maps, and future AI-powered travel services. Here’s to building a more connected, interoperable future for travel. 🌍✈️
Announced yesterday at the #OSSummit Europe in Amsterdam, our big news broke that we have joined the Overture Maps Foundation! This underpins our vision to change the way travel is distributed, and our partnership with Overture Maps Foundation helps us to resolve one of the travel industry’s most persistent challenges: standardizing location data across the highly fragmented ecosystem of travel providers, platforms, and markets. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gwXumPzc
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Overture Maps Foundation reposted this
Meet Drew Breunig, Geospatial & AI Strategist at Overture Maps Foundation and speaker at #SDSC25 NY! 🎤 With a background leading strategy and data science at PlaceIQ, Drew now focuses on Overture’s global ID initiative, part of the open data foundation backed by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom. He also advises organizations and startups on practical AI implementation and strategic growth. Don’t miss his talk at #SDSC25 NY and save your spot now! 🎟️https://hubs.ly/Q03FrlV60
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Thank you to Stu Waldron, Director of OpenTravel Alliance (OTA), and Albi Wiedersberg, Vice President of Product Management at Overture Maps Foundation, for presenting how #OvertureMaps and OTA are enabling the future of travel with #opendata today at #OSSummit Europe! If you missed their sessions - read the blog to learn more about this collaboration and how you can get involved: https://lnkd.in/dMpBJEGm
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Welcome our new member OpenTravel Alliance 👏 By combining Overture’s Global Entity Reference System (#GERS) and open data with OpenTravel’s industry standards, we’re making it easier for the travel sector to share accurate, consistent location information. This is a big step toward an open, interoperable travel ecosystem that unlocks better booking experiences, richer maps, and future AI-powered travel services. Here’s to building a more connected, interoperable future for travel. 🌍✈️ Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eXVTAuqu
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📢 Overture 2025-08-20.0 is now live. New Building data from Esri and Vancouver, plus expanded Base theme with quay, railway, and artwork classes. A minor patch for Microsoft ML buildings will follow shortly. Get the #opendata: https://hubs.ly/Q03DXCb10
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