The Overture Maps October 2026 release 2026-10-21.0 expanded strongly across Western Europe, with +8.55% net growth in indexable Places records. Country gains were: France +70%, Netherlands +76%, Switzerland +74%, Austria +65%, Spain +61%, United Kingdom +34%. Meanwhile, Germany -14% and Italy -10% fell. The global total rose from 81,451,913 to 88,414,622, adding 6,962,709 records versus 2026-09-23.1.

World map of country changes; +8.55% globally. Full country counts are in the linked facts JSON. — One dot per located country or territory; area shows current records, colour shows percentage change; hollow dots are within ±5%. The inset shows the region with the largest sum of absolute country changes. 11 unlocated source codes remain in the facts and totals.

Overture’s Places release notes say: “Places grew 8.5% this release, driven by the expansion of BrightQuery coverage across Western Europe and the addition of three new sources.” Our measured gains across the named European markets align with that regional expansion; the country counts alone do not isolate a provider’s contribution.

Where country counts moved

The inventory has 259 country and territory codes, versus 259 previously. No codes were added. No codes disappeared. A drop does not tell us whether places closed or records were deduplicated.

Percentage changes for top gainers and all qualifying declines. Values and counts follow in the table. — Top absolute and percentage gainers, plus every decline among countries with at least 100,000 records in both releases.

Country	Previous	Current	Change	% change
Netherlands (NL)	736,411	1,298,442	+562,031	+76.32%
Switzerland (CH)	414,120	720,039	+305,919	+73.87%
France (FR)	2,215,405	3,775,859	+1,560,454	+70.44%
Austria (AT)	348,587	573,842	+225,255	+64.62%
Spain (ES)	1,599,883	2,576,045	+976,162	+61.01%
United Kingdom (GB)	3,235,716	4,320,514	+1,084,798	+33.53%
United States (US)	17,949,232	18,445,349	+496,117	+2.76%
Italy (IT)	4,159,417	3,761,535	-397,882	-9.57%
Denmark (DK)	478,803	421,392	-57,411	-11.99%
Germany (DE)	5,645,323	4,871,737	-773,586	-13.70%

What changed by category

The largest absolute category change was home_service, +408,564 records (+14.33%). The chart and table show the largest movements in basic_category.

Largest category changes by record count; exact values follow in the table. — Eight largest absolute category changes, measured in indexable records.

Category	Previous	Current	Change	% change
`home_service`	2,851,199	3,259,763	+408,564	+14.33%
`personal_or_beauty_service`	3,261,304	3,591,244	+329,940	+10.12%
`unknown`	2,830,780	3,150,403	+319,623	+11.29%
`restaurant`	5,659,055	5,900,455	+241,400	+4.27%
`financial_service`	1,918,162	2,138,508	+220,346	+11.49%
`real_estate_service`	2,083,139	2,284,739	+201,600	+9.68%
`fashion_and_apparel_store`	2,839,310	3,033,059	+193,749	+6.82%
`corporate_or_business_office`	939,250	1,126,342	+187,092	+19.92%

The city frames

Paris had the largest absolute change of the fixed city frames: +19,698 records (+24.00%), from 82,063 to 101,761. The change plate matches Overture ids inside the same frame in each release.

Paris: 81,844 ids in both frames, 19,917 only in the new release, 219 only in the old release. — Matched on Overture id within the same frame at confidence ≥ 0.6. Retained ids use current coordinates.

Percentage change in each fixed frame.

All 20 city-frame counts

City frame	Previous	Current	Change	% change
Paris	82,063	101,761	+19,698	+24.00%
London	100,467	116,998	+16,531	+16.45%
Jakarta	42,021	44,661	+2,640	+6.28%
Nairobi	16,930	17,897	+967	+5.71%
Lagos	9,641	10,170	+529	+5.49%
Dubai	25,310	26,555	+1,245	+4.92%
Cairo	16,823	17,568	+745	+4.43%
Mexico City	48,064	50,166	+2,102	+4.37%
Seoul	51,954	54,225	+2,271	+4.37%
Buenos Aires	35,851	37,065	+1,214	+3.39%
Cape Town	8,025	8,296	+271	+3.38%
Singapore	41,693	43,070	+1,377	+3.30%
Mumbai	16,699	17,248	+549	+3.29%
São Paulo	71,419	73,512	+2,093	+2.93%
Tokyo	141,034	145,031	+3,997	+2.83%
Istanbul	49,440	50,831	+1,391	+2.81%
Sydney	46,290	46,979	+689	+1.49%
Toronto	40,167	40,729	+562	+1.40%
Berlin	66,518	67,176	+658	+0.99%
New York	185,129	186,798	+1,669	+0.90%

Source confidence

Confidence bin	Previous	Current	Change	% change
`0.6_to_below_0.9`	28,469,200	28,946,216	+477,016	+1.68%
`0.9_to_1`	24,705,646	26,794,651	+2,089,005	+8.46%
`below_0.6`	28,277,067	32,673,755	+4,396,688	+15.55%

How we measured

Indexable means a primary name and a first-address country code of trimmed length two, with no confidence filter; counts are source records, not verified businesses. Country rankings require at least 100,000 records in both releases. Categories use exact basic_category (missing values become unknown). Confidence is Overture’s source score, not audited accuracy. City frames are fixed rectangles, not city boundaries: they include water and count source points at confidence ≥ 0.6, without the country/name filters. Counts are exact; percentages use the previous count as denominator, rounded to two decimals in tables and to whole percentages in the opening country summary. A zero baseline has no percentage.

The current STAC catalog reports schema 2.0.0. The previous catalog reports 2.0.0.

Both releases were measured with DuckDB over public Overture S3, without downloading releases. Download the facts and redraw archive for complete country, category, confidence and city inventories, map positions and the rendered city plates.

Open Places API at publication

At publication, Open Places API serves Overture release 2026-10-21.0. Current coverage records the service’s present data.