Overture Maps Foundation releases transportation dataset

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to enable current and next-generation interoperable open map services and products, today announced the General Availability (GA) of its global Transportation dataset. This open map dataset supports new and expanded use cases across a broad swath of industries including automotive, ride-sharing, logistics, navigation, local search, urban planning, and disaster and humanitarian response.

The Transportation dataset includes 86 million kilometers of roads worldwide and is already in use by early adopters like Microsoft, Meta, and TomTom in mapping applications. The GA release means the data and underlying schema is now stable and that developers can start using the data in applications. Many other companies and application developers are expected to begin using the Overture Transportation dataset as a base for various applications. This dataset joins other Overture datasets in reaching GA, including buildings, places of interest, divisions (boundaries) and a base layer.

 But Transportation is potentially the most impactful dataset in terms of potential use cases and was by far the most complex to develop, given the interconnected network relationships that exist in roads and the central importance of transportation to all other sectors.

The Transportation dataset includes detailed, accurate data from aerial imagery, clear road routes with recognizable highway signs, comprehensive rail and ferry route information, and better handling of complex traffic rules and restrictions. Starting with OpenStreetMap (OSM) data, Overture then re-engineered the data structure to create a dataset that is more stable, with a documented schema, and so is easier for application developers to use.

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