Overture Maps (global places, buildings, transportation, addresses)

Overture Maps (global places, buildings, transportation, addresses)

Overture Maps Foundation releases global open map data — places, buildings, transportation, administrative divisions and addresses — as downloadable GeoParquet files, updated monthly, no key required. The attribution guide frames the Addresses theme's many contributing sources this way: "The addresses data comes from a variety of sources. All carry permissive open licenses."

Coverage

Six themes (Addresses, Base, Buildings, Divisions, Places, Transportation) released as monthly GeoParquet files, downloadable via S3, Azure, BigQuery or DuckDB, no key. Update cadence: monthly bulk release, per the docs' getting-data instructions. Retention: "Overture maintains publicly available data releases for a maximum of 60 days (two monthly releases) to comply with data protection regulations, including GDPR "right to be forgotten" requirements."

Verdict

Global open map data (places/POIs, buildings, transportation networks, administrative boundaries and addresses), released monthly as downloadable GeoParquet files by the Overture Maps Foundation, no key. WARNING: licence is Custom and set per theme and per source, not one blanket licence — for example, the Places theme's business/POI contributions from Meta, Microsoft, PinMeTo and others are "Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0", while Foursquare's Places contribution is licensed Apache 2.0 with its own NOTICE.txt (not CDLA), the Base/Buildings/Divisions/Transportation themes carry OpenStreetMap-derived ODbL data alongside other CC BY 4.0 and national open-government sources, and the Addresses theme's many national sources each carry their own terms: "The addresses data comes from a variety of sources. All carry permissive open licenses. Some have special terms or require attribution." Always check the attribution guide for the theme and source actually in use rather than citing one Overture licence. Rate limits: Not applicable (monthly bulk file release, not a rate-limited API). Signal Lab links only.