Mark Litwintschik 12/19/2024

Overture Maps' Refreshed Global Geospatial Datasets

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The article discusses the Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative project providing open global map data. It highlights the challenge of finding free, up-to-date geospatial datasets, contrasting with OpenStreetMap's human-verification approach. Overture blends data from partners like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft into monthly-refreshed Parquet files. The author also details their high-performance workstation setup for working with this 7+ TB dataset.

Overture Maps' Refreshed Global Geospatial Datasets

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