Overture Maps Foundation Workshop
Theme: The case for open data as the backbone of Spatial Data Infrastructure
15 May 2024 // 1130-1230 hrs | Hall - Penn
Technical Director
Overture Maps Foundation
USA
Amy Rose is technical director at Overture Maps Foundation. She had dedicated several decades to the geospatial domain designing, building, and deploying geospatial data and technology solutions for human health and security, environmental remediation, logistics, and transportation planning projects. She's worked in the academic and private sector, in government ecosystems, and most recently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where she worked with interdisciplinary teams to model and map the built environment and highly resolved estimates of human population at global scale.
Amy received her PhD in Geography from The University of Tennessee and an MS in Geography with a graduate minor in Logistics and Transportation.
Executive Director
Overture Maps Foundation
USA
Marc Prioleau, a seasoned business development executive with over two decades of experience in the mapping and location industry, is the new Executive Director of the recently launched Overture Maps Foundation (OMF). The OMF is an initiative launched by the Linux Foundation, focusing on creating high-quality, interoperable open map data for organizations that use the data to develop mapping and location services.
Prioleau's extensive experience in the industry includes his most recent role as Head of Business Development for Mapping at Meta. There he led Meta's involvement in founding OMF along with Microsoft, Amazon, and TomTom. Before Meta, Prioleau was the Head of Location Partnerships at Uber as well as VP of corporate and business development at Mapbox. Prioleau's passion for open map data has led him to promote its use across the mapping industry. He has been a contributor to the OpenStreetMap project since 2006.
CEO
Addresscloud
Lead Business Development Manager
National Mapping & Cadastre - Esri
Maps Product Manager
TomTom
As spatial data proliferates into every sector, the cost and complexity of data conflation are also exploding. With no standard way to associate data to map entities and no agreement even on the basemap to which that data is conflated, the industry is stuck with inefficiency, redundant effort, and, worst of all, lower impact. It is time to rethink this on a global scale.
Overture Maps Foundation proposes a new model based on two premises. First, the base layers that support the spatial data should be open source. They need to be highly accurate, complete but most importantly available for use by anyone under open permissive licenses. Second, the entities in those base layers should have unique, persistent, and open identifiers that can be used to conflate any data (open or proprietary) to the baselayer in a clear unambiguous way. This is a fundamental reset of the current model of proprietary data and conflicting standards but, once successful, can reframe the geospatial industry to meet its potential.
In this workshop, Marc Prioleau (Executive Director) and Dr. Amy Rose (Technical Director) will present an overview of Overture maps and the Global Entity Reference System (GERS) that can join disparate data sets into a common infrastructure. We're pleased to welcome partners from three leading companies—AddressCloud, Esri, and TomTom—who will demonstrate the practical applications of this framework in their mapping efforts. Join us to learn how you can leverage GERS to enhance your geospatial projects.