Open Places API Open base data
Overture Places provides a common open-data foundation for place records, names, categories, and addresses.
Overture Places API
Overture Places data, served for production search.
Overture publishes open places data. Open Places API turns that data into a hosted Places API: one endpoint, server-side authentication, predictable quotas, and room for your own layer on top.
Why Overture matters.
Most place search products make the data source feel invisible. Overture changes that. The data is open, the schema is published, and teams can understand the base layer instead of treating it as a vendor black box.
Published schema
Teams can inspect how places are represented instead of only seeing whatever a proprietary API returns.
Managed serving
Open Places API handles the serving layer so teams do not need to build their own Overture ingestion and search stack.
What Open Places API adds.
| Layer | Responsibility |
|---|---|
| Overture Places | Open base data for the shared place index. |
| Open Places API | Hosted search, monthly release processing, coverage checks, authentication, quotas, OpenAPI docs, and API responses. |
| Your account layer | Product-specific additions, corrections, suppressions, closed/moved flags, duplicates, and private records. |
Coverage and refresh cadence.
The production index currently serves 39 million places across 18 selected countries and territories. Open Places API tracks Overture's monthly releases and promotes a new release only after build and validation checks pass.
That means the API is intentionally managed: customers get open-data foundations without owning the ingestion, indexing, shard warming, and deployment work that a self-hosted Overture stack would require.
Overture Places API FAQ.
Is Open Places API the official Overture Maps API?
No. Open Places API is an independent hosted API built on Overture Places data. Overture publishes open map data; Open Places API serves a product-focused search API over that data.
Why use Overture Places data?
Overture Places is open data with a published schema. That makes the base data easier to inspect, reason about, and replace than a closed vendor-only place index.
What does Open Places API add to Overture data?
Open Places API adds hosted search, API authentication, quotas, production serving, coverage checks, and account-owned layers for corrections or private records.
How often is the data refreshed?
The service tracks Overture's monthly releases. New releases move into the API after the Open Places API build and validation checks pass.