Places Data

Overture Maps' Places dataset offers over 61 million global point-of-interest features, including businesses, schools, and landmarks, with detailed attributes like name, category, and address.

Places

Overture Maps' Places dataset includes over 61 million point features representing real-world entities such as businesses, schools, hospitals, parks, and landmarks. Each feature is a point geometry with attributes like name, category, address, brand, and confidence score. The data is sourced from contributors like Meta, Microsoft, and PinMeTo, and is available under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 license .

You can import Places data from Overture Maps directly through Atlas' Overture Maps integration. This allows you to seamlessly incorporate detailed point-of-interest data into your Atlas projects, supporting applications such as local search, navigation, and spatial analysis.

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CoverageGlobal
Layer TypeVector
Update FrequencyMonthly
Categories
Infrastructure
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