Overture Places — Overture Maps Foundation Places
Published by Overture Maps Foundation (industry consortium hosted by The Linux Foundation)· quarterly
Open dataset of 16+ million U.S. points-of-interest — restaurants, parks, gyms, libraries, pharmacies — built by Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, TomTom, Esri.
In Detail
Overture Maps Foundation is a Linux Foundation-hosted industry consortium (founding members: Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, TomTom; expanded to Esri and others) producing open, interoperable map data including a global Places dataset. The U.S. portion contains 16.78 million POIs across categories like restaurants, fast food, cafés, bars, pharmacies, grocery stores, parks, gyms, libraries, schools — each with name, exact coordinates, address, brand, phone, and operating status. Released under CDLA 2.0 license. ValiFit uses Overture Places to power the Livability composite (POI density within walking/driving radii) and to render canonical entity pages at /places/[id] for every POI — feeding LLM citation indexes via Schema.org @types matched to Overture categories (Restaurant, Pharmacy, Park, GroceryStore, Library, etc.).
Primary Federal Source
https://overturemaps.org/ValiFit re-publishes and explains this federal data. The official source is the Overture Maps Foundation (industry consortium hosted by The Linux Foundation).
How ValiFit uses Overture Places
- Livability composite (walkability, POI density)
- Property page nearby amenities
- /places/[id] entity pages
- Town entity drill-downs