National mapping agencies and private businesses face common challenges in managing and integrating spatial data. This panel from GeoBuiz Summit 2025 explores how open map data collaboration — exemplified by the Overture Maps Foundation — can provide a sustainable, interoperable solution. Experts discuss the potential of public-private partnerships built on open basemap layers and unique entity identifiers to reduce costs and improve data integration.
Our expert panelists discuss:
- How open basemap layers and standardized entity identifiers can transform spatial data sharing
- Solutions to reduce the growing costs of maintaining spatial data infrastructure
- New models for public-private partnerships in the geospatial sector
- Practical applications for both government agencies and private businesses
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Founded in 2022, Overture Maps Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on the development of reliable, easy-to-use, and interoperable open map data that will power current and next-generation map products. This interoperable map is the basis for extensibility, enabling companies to contribute their own data. Members combine resources to build map data that is complete, accurate, and refreshed as the physical world changes. Map data will be open and extensible by all under an open data license.
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