Overture Maps – Buildings Theme

Overture publishes a full catalog of assets in each monthly release: global map data, vector tiles, a STAC catalog, a GERS registry, bridge files, and a changelog. Everything is hosted on Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.


Overture distributes its core map data as GeoParquet files, a column-oriented spatial data format optimized for cloud-native queries. You can scan across the files and pull only the data you need without downloading everything. See this guide from the Cloud Native Geospatial Forum for more on GeoParquet.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessRights Public
appAccessMethod To access the Overture Explorer, scroll down the homepage (https://overturemaps.org/) to the Overture Explorer iframe. Click on the "Open in a new tab to explore and inspect Overture data and schema ↗" hyperlink above the top right-hand corner of the iframe to open the Explorer in full screen.
appAudience GIS Scientists, Citizen Scientists
appPrereqs To understand the Explorer (web-based map viewer) and how to interface with it as a developer, read through all documentation at this GitHub repo: https://github.com/OvertureMaps/explore-site. To get started on understanding the data embedded within the Explorer and/or to download the data yourself, go to this link: https://docs.overturemaps.org/getting-data/.
appUrls ["https://explore.overturemaps.org/?feature=places.place.8afdba6f-1328-47bf-8f3a-39c1e3904210&mode=explore#12.82/35.68636/139.76068"]
catalogTarget ckan
cndp WSTC
lang en
lastUpdateDate 2026-09-24
license other
ndp_creator_md5 29d304491fe8a7fb0a3960ed85790ca6
otherLicense https://github.com/OvertureMaps/explore-site/blob/main/LICENSE.md
pocEmail info@overturemaps.org
pocName Overture Maps
publisherType org
status submitted
theme ["Built Environment & Structures","Community Risk Reduction","Fire Innovation Unit - eligible for FireWERX Challenge","Climate & Weather","Geospatial","Science & Technology","Environment"]
uploadType application
Tags
  • Geospatial Subcommittee
  • geospatial-analysis
  • js
  • maps
  • national geospatial data asset
  • overture-maps
isopen False
metadata_created 2026-10-30T16:36:50.314335
metadata_modified 2026-10-30T16:36:50.314340
notes <p><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">Overture publishes a full catalog of assets in each monthly release: global map data, vector tiles, a STAC catalog, a GERS registry, bridge files, and a changelog. Everything is hosted on Amazon S3 and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33);"><span class="ql-cursor"></span>Overture distributes its core map data as&nbsp;</span><a href="https://geoparquet.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: var(--ifm-link-color);">GeoParquet</a><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">&nbsp;files, a column-oriented spatial data format optimized for cloud-native queries. You can scan across the files and pull only the data you need without downloading everything. See&nbsp;</span><a href="https://guide.cloudnativegeo.org/geoparquet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: var(--ifm-link-color);">this guide</a><span style="color: rgb(28, 30, 33);">&nbsp;from the Cloud Native Geospatial Forum for more on GeoParquet.</span></p>
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num_tags 6
title Overture Maps – Buildings Theme