Overture Tiles

Create tilesets from Overture Maps data.

These tilesets display an "X-ray" visualization of Overture data, for inspecting the breadth of Overture data and attributes. They are not designed to be a production-ready cartographic basemap.

Each Overture theme has an associated PMTiles file.

View these tilesets in your browser:

• addresses

• base

• buildings

• divisions

• places

• transportation

• S3: s3://overturemaps-tiles-us-west-2-beta/RELEASE/THEME.pmtiles

• HTTP: https://overturemaps-tiles-us-west-2-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/RELEASE/THEME.pmtiles

• THEME: one of addresses, base, buildings, divisions, places, transportation

• RELEASE: The Overture release name, not including minor version. For example, theme buildings in data release 2024-07-22.0 will have tiles object name 2024-07-22/buildings.pmtiles.

How to Use

Accessing only the data you want

To create a new tileset for only part of the world, use the extract command of the pmtiles CLI.

To get all buildings tiles around Ghent, Belgium:

pmtiles extract https://overturemaps-tiles-us-west-2-beta.s3.amazonaws.com/2024-07-22/buildings.pmtiles ghent.pmtiles --bbox=3.660507,51.004250,3.784790,51.065996

Building Tilesets

On AWS

Included is a AWS CDK configuration for automating tileset creation using AWS Batch.

Other Environments

Requirements

• a Java Runtime Environment, version 22+, to build the base, buildings and transportation themes, along with planetiler.jar from onthegomap/planetiler Releases.
• the felt/tippecanoe tool and the DuckDB CLI for other themes.
• the aws CLI for downloading Overture data.

Scripts

You can build the tilesets from raw data, modifying the profiles/ and scripts/.

• Copy the Overture Parquet dataset to your local machine using these docs. If you want to only run on a small sample of data, you can use only the first .parquet file instead of all in the directory.

• for the base, buildings and transportation themes, generate the tileset with java:

# --data indicates where your Overture data is (overture/theme=base/...)
java -cp planetiler.jar profiles/Base.java --data=overture

The above command outputs base.pmtiles in the data dir.

• for other themes, run the theme script in themes/:

scripts/2024-07-22/places.sh overture places.pmtiles

This reads from Overture data in overture and writes places.pmtiles.