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Overture Maps (buildings, transport, places)

Overture Maps (buildings, transport, places) (Overture Maps Foundation). Access: S3 / Azure (GeoParquet). Formats: GeoParquet. Resolution: vector. Coverage: Global. Pricing/licence: free (ODbL / CDLA).

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified: building footprints · places (points of interest, e.g. convenience stores)
Coverage llm-inferred: Global
Resolution registry: vector
Formats docs-verified: GeoParquet · GeoJSON · PMTiles
Access llm-inferred: Free (ODbL / CDLA licence per entry metadata). Browsing in the Explorer needs no installation or account. Bulk access is direct read from cloud-hosted GeoParquet (S3, us-west-2) via the Python client or DuckDB; no API key is described.

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred: Building footprint extraction by bounding box for impermeable-area baselines in a drainage or FRA study area · Roof and building area inputs for runoff estimates in a drainage strategy · Mapping places (e.g. commercial premises) within a catchment or site buffer for receptor or stakeholder lists · Scripted bbox extracts to GeoJSON for hand-off into QGIS or other GIS tools
Audience llm-inferred: GIS analysts · drainage engineers · flood risk consultants · planners

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred: Transport theme is in the entry metadata but not described in the docs · Coverage area and release cadence are not stated in the docs; the Global coverage comes from entry metadata only · Resolution is not stated in the docs; 'vector' in the entry is a geometry type, not a resolution · Hardcoded release paths (e.g. release/2026-09-23.1) go stale; the docs recommend the STAC catalog for the latest release · DuckDB queries need LOAD spatial, LOAD httpfs and s3_region set to us-west-2 · Licence attribution and obligations are not described in the docs

Licence: free (ODbL / CDLA)
Authentication: Unknown — review source docs
GitHub stars: Unknown
Last commit: Unknown
Last successful page check: 16/10/2026
Page health: healthy
Package: Not recorded
Verification: Not independently verified

Provenance & evidence

Verified 2026-10-16 (curl HTTP 200).

Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (named: Global)

https://overturemaps.org/download/