The Overture Maps September 2026 release 2026-09-23.0 brought +10.63% net growth in indexable Places records. Germany +89.77%, Italy +76.66%: these were among the largest absolute country changes. The global total moved from 73,627,329 to 81,451,913, a net +7,824,584 versus 2026-08-19.0.
Overture’s Places release notes say: “Places grew 10.6% this release, driven by the expansion of BrightQuery coverage beyond the United States.”
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.
| Country | Previous | Current | Change | % change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Germany (DE) | 2,974,885 | 5,645,323 | +2,670,438 | +89.77% |
| Denmark (DK) | 264,960 | 478,803 | +213,843 | +80.71% |
| Italy (IT) | 2,354,518 | 4,159,417 | +1,804,899 | +76.66% |
| United States (US) | 16,194,652 | 17,949,232 | +1,754,580 | +10.83% |
| China (CN) | 136,706 | 146,425 | +9,719 | +7.11% |
| Brazil (BR) | 5,359,239 | 5,522,988 | +163,749 | +3.06% |
What changed by category
A category comparison is unavailable. The August manifest retains country record counts, but no category inventory; September’s current category counts are preserved in the facts JSON.
The city frames
Before-and-after city plates and city-frame deltas are unavailable for this comparison: the August manifest has no city-frame inventory or points. September’s current frame counts remain in the facts JSON. The country map and bars above use the available country baseline.
Source confidence
A confidence-distribution comparison is unavailable because the August manifest has no confidence bins. September’s current bins are archived in the facts JSON.
The September patch
The 2026-09-23.1 patch changed the indexable total from 81,451,913 to 81,451,913: +0 (+0.00%). Country counts were unchanged. This patch is covered here rather than as a separate article; its inventories are included in the same facts file.
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 archived August manifest does not record a STAC schema version.
September measurements use DuckDB over public Overture S3. The August country baseline is our global manifest at e60d366, source release 2026-08-19.0. The current manifest’s summed record count matches the October inventory exactly (88,414,622); the historical builder used the same name/country predicate. Official S3 and Azure listings no longer retain August, and no official complete older archive was established. Download the facts and redraw archive.
Open Places API at publication
This comparison describes upstream releases. See current coverage for the release Open Places API serves.