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husniPro tip for overturemaps building footprint downloads: While the official data download can be tricky, explore.overturemaps.org is a handy alternative (though limited to zoom 15). Need to check multiple areas? Here's a QGIS field calculator hack:'<a href="https://explore.overturemaps.org/#15/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://explore.overturemaps.org/#15/</a>' || to_string(y(centroid($geometry)), 5) || '/' || to_string(x(centroid($geometry)), 5)This generates clickable URLs for each grid cell! 🗺️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/QGIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#QGIS</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenData</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a>

The Linux Foundation📢 Making Maps Smarter with Open Data 🌍The Overture Maps Foundation is transforming how map data is shared & used. With Amy Rose as its first CTO, efforts continue to make mapping more open, accurate & connected.Learn how open data is shaping the future of maps: 🔗 Read the blog: <a href="https://overturemaps.org/blog/2025/making-open-data-part-of-a-national-data-infrastructure/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://overturemaps.org/blog/2025/making-open-data-part-of-a-national-data-infrastructure/</a><a href="https://social.lfx.dev/tags/OpenData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenData</a> <a href="https://social.lfx.dev/tags/Mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapping</a> <a href="https://social.lfx.dev/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> <a href="https://social.lfx.dev/tags/FutureofMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FutureofMaps</a> <a href="https://social.lfx.dev/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Innovation</a>

Adam Cox<a href="https://vis.social/@aboutgeo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aboutgeo</a> Went with clusters in the pmtiles in the end. Here are the gory details: <a href="https://github.com/healthyregions/overture-poi-extract/blob/v0.0.1/extract_pois.py#L142" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/healthyregions/overture-poi-extract/blob/v0.0.1/extract_pois.py#L142</a> Ultimately, we needed to create <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/geojson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geojson</a> <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/pmtiles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pmtiles</a> or <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/shapefile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shapefile</a> extracts from the <a href="https://mapstodon.space/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a> "places" theme for groups of categories, filtered just to the US. But I built it so random geoms can be passed in, or you can just provide a state, county, tract, etc. ID and that boundary will be used as a filter.

mapconciergeミラノのMetaオフィスで開催された <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapillary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapillary</a> ミートアップイベント「Walkabout Milano」に THETA X を持って登壇してきました。3m 一脚の威力も実演。ミラノ市の都市政策の担当官も登壇されて、我々が収集した都市のストリート画像をどのように行政で活用するのかも知ることができて学ぶことの多いイベントでした。古橋の資料はコメント欄にURL貼ります！<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/THETA360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#THETA360</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/theta360fan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theta360fan</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Milano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milano</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GEOlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOlab</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/PoliMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliMI</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FuruhashiLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuruhashiLab</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/%E5%8F%A4%E6%A9%8B%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E5%AE%A4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#古橋研究室</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/AoyamaGSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AoyamaGSC</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/%E9%9D%92%E5%AD%A6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#青学</a>

mapconciergeついに、ミラノ市内の360°ストリート画像データを <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapillary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapillary</a> にがっつりアップロードしている同志Jacopo Farinaさんと対面！<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Milano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milano</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GEOlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOlab</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/PoliMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliMI</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Milano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milano</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FuruhashiLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuruhashiLab</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/%E5%8F%A4%E6%A9%8B%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E5%AE%A4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#古橋研究室</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/AoyamaGSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AoyamaGSC</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/%E9%9D%92%E5%AD%A6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#青学</a>

mapconciergeMilanoのMeta Officeにて <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapillary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapillary</a> meetup “Walkabout Milano” 始まった！この後古橋も登壇します！<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Milano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milano</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/GEOlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GEOlab</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/PoliMI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PoliMI</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Milano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Milano</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/FuruhashiLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FuruhashiLab</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/%E5%8F%A4%E6%A9%8B%E7%A0%94%E7%A9%B6%E5%AE%A4" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#古橋研究室</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/AoyamaGSC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AoyamaGSC</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/%E9%9D%92%E5%AD%A6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#青学</a>

Alexander KmochChecking in from the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OGC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OGC</a> @opengeospatial member meeting in Goyang, South Korea. Here for <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/DGGS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DGGS</a>. Side info <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> is a principal member now and Bentley has acquired Cesium 3d globe software

William EdmistenMy recent project Surprise Date Spot uses <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openstreetmap</a> to find every restaurant across the planet. When I was creating this project I wondered if <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a> could provide better data, but didn't find much in the way of quantitative comparison between the two.So I decided to do my own analysis by looking at 100 random restaurants from each dataset. Here's how they compare:<a href="https://surprisedatespot.com/blog/comparing-overture-osm-restaurants/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://surprisedatespot.com/blog/comparing-overture-osm-restaurants/</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭The categories for 2024’s <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/30DayMapChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#30DayMapChallenge</a> are finally out!<a href="https://30daymapchallenge.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://30daymapchallenge.com/</a>It seems the categories depart just a little bit more from the usual types of challenges in past years.3 categories give me some pause though: “AI only” (day 9), “Collaborative map” (day 17), and “Overture” (day 29). I’ll probably do an anti-AI map for day 9. Day 17 won’t be smooth sailing since I prefer working on my own. And I am quite critical of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> if you haven’t noticed.<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/Mapstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mapstodon</a>

Steven FeldmanGreat conversation on the <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/geomobpod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#geomobpod</a> with <a href="https://en.osm.town/@Mprioleau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Mprioleau</a> about <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> <a href="https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-253" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-253</a>Hardcore OSM contributors may not be happy but it seems to me that OMF is creating a dataset that some users will prefer. Have a listen and let me know what you think

Jake CoppingerAnalysis of Overture Maps POI quality by Wille Marcel (Aug 2023)<a href="https://observablehq.com/d/9847c08c46f56ed6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://observablehq.com/d/9847c08c46f56ed6</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openstreetmap</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/observable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#observable</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datavis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#datavis</a>

Steven FeldmanIf I understood BigQuery or Dekart this looks like it could be very useful for accessing <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a> <a href="https://chatgpt.com/g/g-onSLtzQQB-overture-maps-gpt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chatgpt.com/g/g-onSLtzQQB-overture-maps-gpt</a>Maybe there is a role for GenAI in geo?

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<a href="https://en.osm.town/@cbed" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@cbed</a> at least for my country, maybe 99% of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> POIs are from Facebook. Practically every organization and company here would set up a Facebook page in lieu of an actual website. And based on my past unscientific assessment of Overture’s data, I don’t think majority are accurately placed on the map. But the other types of data (like opening hours, telephone, email, etc.) I think are good enough.

Brent Lineberry“Drew Breunig demonstrates how this can be accessed using both the Overture Explorer tool and DuckDB, and talks about Overture's GERS IDs - reminiscent of Who's On First IDs - which provide stable IDs for all kinds of geographic places.”<a href="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/1/towards-standardizing-place/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/1/towards-standardizing-place/</a><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Maps</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<a href="https://mapstodon.space/@jwass2000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwass2000</a> and <a href="https://social.modest.com/@ian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ian</a>, thank you so much for clarifying the intent of the PR. I’ve updated my original post to point to your replies and to repeat what you both said about the address schema being intentionally simple at first.<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭I became aware of this <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> PR¹ and you can tell that it seems they haven’t read “Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses”².“All addresses have [...] street, number, [...] postcode.” Good luck recording addresses in Japan!UPDATE! <a href="https://mapstodon.space/@jwass2000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jwass2000</a> (who opened the PR) and <a href="https://social.modest.com/@ian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ian</a> (founder of <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenAddresses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAddresses</a>) have replied saying that the address schema is intentionally simple at first but will eventually be more sophisticated.¹ <a href="https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/pull/193" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/OvertureMaps/schema/pull/193</a>² <a href="https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-addresses/</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭Posted without comment. 🤐<a href="https://www.facebook.com/hotosm/posts/pfbid02baMx9jDSaWRZKAbsQ4BBV9Y7U8v6Z1RC4tP1jW1RvHvdR6LWFRPwgexF23DZz462l" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/hotosm/posts/pfbid02baMx9jDSaWRZKAbsQ4BBV9Y7U8v6Z1RC4tP1jW1RvHvdR6LWFRPwgexF23DZz462l</a><a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/HOTOSM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HOTOSM</a>

Brian MichalskiI'm sure they have good reasons for not doing it, but I wish OpenStreetMap assigned IDs to everything.The alternative appears to be waiting for Overture to do it, but I'm not sure they're ever going to get to trees.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openstreetmap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openstreetmap</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a>

Matt Travis<a href="https://en.osm.town/@tomchadwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@tomchadwin</a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@ajggeoger" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ajggeoger</a>So the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/overturemaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overturemaps</a> python library is a good starting point for extracting a bbox. Then you can visualise using <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/lonboard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lonboard</a>

foxyI suddenly discovered that <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OvertureMaps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OvertureMaps</a> data on administrative boundaries is now licensed under ODbL and contains <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/OpenStreetMap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenStreetMap</a> data<a href="https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/attribution/#adminsdivisions" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/attribution/#adminsdivisions</a>Initially, this was data from Esri and TomTom under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 license.<a href="https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/archived/#theme-specific-updates-6" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://docs.overturemaps.org/release-notes/archived/#theme-specific-updates-6</a>The only dataset that doesn't contain OpenStreetMap data is POI dataset.Hey guys, one <a href="https://en.osm.town/@everydoor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@everydoor</a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@organicmaps</a> not enough to make OSM data an industry standard.

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