Overture Maps And The Daylight Distribution

In this podcast episode, Jennings Anderson, a research scientist at Meta, discusses theOverture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), a downstream product of OpenStreetMap.

He explains his background in open map data and his interest in studying collaboration within the OpenStreetMap community.

Jennings then dives into theDaylight Distribution (daylightmap.org), an open data product produced by Meta, and how it combines building data sets from various sources into one unified theme.

Jennings emphasizes the importance of a stable ID system within the Overture Maps Foundation and the potential for easy conflation and integration of third-party data.

Jennings also explains the relationship between OpenStreetMap and Overture Maps, highlighting how they complement each other.

Relevant podcast episodes

OpenStreetMap Is A Community Of Communities

Cloud Native Geospatial

Cloud Optimized Point Clouds

The Rapid Editor

With regards to accessing Overture Map data, you might find this YouTube video helpful

youtu.be/fZj6kTwXN1U?feature=shared

Just in case you are interested in the Google building footprints here is a link to that :)

sites.research.google/open-buildings

Some more episodes you might enjoy

ESRI (mapscaping.podbean.com), GIS careers (mapscaping.com/podcasts), Geospatial Data Science (mapscaping.com/podcasts)

QGIS (mapscaping.com/podcasts), Geospatial Python (mapscaping.com/podcasts), ArcGIS Pro (mapscaping.com/podcasts)

Google Maps (mapscaping.com/podcasts), Geomatics (mapscaping.com/podcasts), Cartography (mapscaping.com/podcasts)

Location Intelligence (mapscaping.com/podcasts), Mapping (mapscaping.com/podcasts)