Overture Member Summit 2026

In this talk, we share Uber’s approach to evaluating Overture’s global POI and address datasets from a production maps perspective.

We will describe the goals and scope of our evaluation, including the international markets we focused on and the practical questions we aimed to answer as a downstream consumer of open geospatial data. The talk will outline how we assessed net-new coverage, data quality, and enrichment attributes, with an emphasis on understanding where open data provides incremental value and where gaps remain.

A key focus will be our evaluation methodology. We will walk through a multi-pronged approach that combines standalone sampling, comparative analysis against existing datasets, and trip-based coverage headroom to better approximate real-world user impact. Rather than relying solely on raw feature counts, this framework prioritizes where missing or incorrect data most affects actual usage.

Finally, we will share high-level findings and lessons learned from the evaluation, including observations on strengths, limitations, and areas where closer collaboration between data producers and consumers could improve outcomes.

A summary of all the cool things we've been doing with Overture Data

Increase awareness of the value proposition of connected geospatial data and how companies are exploiting that capability.
As geospatial data becomes increasingly critical for organisations seeking to make informed decisions, data enrichment, augmenting internal data with curated third-party data, is fast emerging as a key strategy.
In this presentation, we will show how using unique and persistent IDs, such as GERS, and the PreciselyID, makes it easier to integrate different geospatial datasets. This allows organisations to use and consume a wealth of trusted data for additional insight, including address and property data, points of interest, streets, demographics, boundaries, natural hazards, and more. We will also discuss the common challenges that organisations face when onboarding data and explain how connected data solutions solve these issues with our connected data solutions.
We will share examples of how leading companies use these capabilities to transform their operations and make geospatial insights accessible to everyone using a combination of Overture Places and Address GERs along with the extended attribution that can be connected to from Precisely.