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Overture Maps

Global places of interest, building footprints, addresses, and road networks as GeoParquet on public cloud storage buckets.

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About

The Overture Maps Foundation, founded by Amazon Web Services, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom, creates interoperable open map data. Its data releases are organized into standardized themes: Base, Buildings, Divisions, Places, and Transportation. The data is partitioned and published as columnar GeoParquet files hosted on public Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob storage buckets, queryable using modern SQL engines like DuckDB, Trino, and Amazon Athena.

Through Fibric, an operator queries Overture place categories, building structures, and transportation corridors, proposing updated merchant metadata, delivery entrance pins, or route network validations for logistics teams.

This is a reference listing. It documents what Fibric would read from Overture Maps and what it could propose, based on the publisher's published interfaces. Fibric builds it under a managed deployment when you request it; selecting it here installs nothing.

Inputs

  • Global points of interest and merchant profiles with business categories and contact data via the Places theme
  • Building footprints, heights, roof types, and 3D structure polygons from the Buildings theme
  • Administrative boundary polygons and hierarchical division relationships from the Divisions theme
  • Standardized civic address points with postal attributes through the Addresses theme
  • Road centerlines, turn restrictions, and connector segments via the Transportation theme
  • Direct spatial SQL query access against public GeoParquet files on S3 and Azure

Proposed actions

Read-only. This feed informs operators; it changes nothing.

Proposed actions are target capabilities. Every action runs propose-first and needs a validated deployment and the appropriate permissions.

What you can build

  • Match commercial destinations to Overture places

    Cross-reference delivery recipient business names against Overture Places, proposing confirmed commercial operating names and standardized category tags.

    With Site Benchmark, Address Repair

  • Pinpoint delivery doors on building footprints

    Query building polygons and address centroids to verify physical structure locations, proposing precise delivery drop-off pins for cargo drivers.

    With Field Dispatch, Missed Delivery

  • Audit private fleet route networks

    Validate vehicle navigation paths against Overture Transportation road segments, proposing route revisions where mapped access restrictions exist.

    With Route Deviation

Requirements

  • A Parquet-compatible SQL query engine such as DuckDB, Athena, or Apache Sedona
  • Spatial bounding box or theme filtering to query targeted geographic partitions
  • Attribution matching theme licenses (ODbL for transportation and divisions; CDLA-Permissive-2.0 for places)
Authentication
None. Overture Maps datasets are hosted in public cloud storage buckets on Amazon S3 and Azure Blob storage with no credentials or API keys required.

Limits

  • Datasets are distributed as columnar GeoParquet files on cloud object storage rather than a hosted REST API
  • Full global downloads encompass hundreds of gigabytes requiring cloud-native query tooling
  • Releases occur on a scheduled monthly cadence with dated release directory namespaces

Access and pricing

Reference listing. Public feed access is separate from Fibric integration. If you request this feed, your quote covers the build, usage, and support.

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Questions and answers

How is Overture Maps data queried without a server?
Because data is stored in GeoParquet format with spatial bounding box metadata, tools like DuckDB can query remote S3 or Azure files directly via HTTP range requests, reading only the necessary byte ranges.
What themes are included in Overture Maps?
Overture includes five core themes: Base (water and land cover), Buildings (footprints and 3D models), Divisions (political boundaries), Places (points of interest), and Transportation (road networks).
What licenses govern Overture Maps datasets?
The Places theme is licensed under CDLA-Permissive-2.0. The Base, Buildings, Divisions, and Transportation themes are licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL 1.0).
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This Commons signal listing is developed, published, and supported by Fibric. It reads public data published by Overture Maps Foundation (docs.overturemaps.org). Upstream agencies and projects are the property of their respective owners, who are not affiliated with Fibric and do not sponsor or endorse this listing. Trademark policy