Mark Litwintschik • 7/29/2024

Revisiting Overture's Global Geospatial Datasets

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This article revisits the Overture Maps Foundation's monthly releases of open global geospatial data, covering building footprints, roads, addresses, and AI-generated land use. It details the evolution from large Protocol Buffer files to spatially sorted Parquet files and a new serverless web Explorer app using PM Tiles. The author also describes their high-performance workstation setup and prerequisites for analyzing the datasets with Python.

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