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.