The Overture Maps Foundation is an open data mapping collaboration, launched in mid-December 2022 under the auspices of the Linux Foundation.
Its stated mission is "powering current and next-generation map products by creating reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data."
Overture founding members were Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom.
[4] In April 2024, the Foundation released the first version of its dataset, as part of a beta test of its service.
[5] The data is available in GeoParquet, an incubating Open Geospatial Consortium standard that adds interoperable geospatial types to Apache Parquet,[6] format via Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.