The Overture Maps Foundation is a collaborative effort led by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and TomTom to provide developers with reliable and interoperable open map data. It was first announced in December 2022 and has already released its first maps dataset with information on over 59 million places around the world.
In this episode, we spoke with Marc Prioleau, executive director at Overture Maps Foundation and Deane Kensok, content CTO for ArcGIS at Esri, which is a member of the foundation as well. We talked about the history of the project, their vision for map data, and how developers can utilize these datasets.