Today, Overture Maps Foundation announced the general availability of the Global Entity Reference System (GERS). GERS provides common, open, accessible IDs for geospatial entities like buildings, places, and roads, making... The post Understanding Overture’s Global Entity Reference System appeared first on Overture Maps Foundation.| Overture Maps Foundation
The geospatial industry faces a critical challenge: we're drowning in data but starving for efficient ways to use it. A recent panel at GeoBuiz 2025 revealed how open map data collaboration might be the solution we need.| Overture Maps Foundation
Collaborative effort to develop interoperable open map data for mapping services worldwide | The Linux Foundation open source project| Bluesky Social
The Overture Maps Foundation has four tiers of membership to suit anyone wanting to join in the effort to build open map data. Participation in working groups is open, however we expect that members will be active contributors to open data, technology, development time, or financial resources that can be used to move faster. Greater levels of contribution gives participants more influence over the direction and priorities of the project and working groups.| Overture Maps Foundation
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//explore.overturemaps.org| docs.overturemaps.org
