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Over the past few releases, the Overture engineering team has gone from generating a [STAC catalog](https://stacspec.org/en) as an ad hoc release artifact to making STAC the backbone of our tooling. Now our [Python client](https://github.com/OvertureMaps/overturemaps-py), [Explorer](https://explore.overturemaps.org/), internal QA tools, and data pipelines all use [Overture STAC](https://stac.overturemaps.org/) to stay in sync with the latest release. We did this to improve our own workflows, but we think it'll make things easier for everyone.

Here she is, from the top. So powerful, so beautiful. https://stac.overturemaps.org/.
Here's our STAC, from the top. https://stac.overturemaps.org/.


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"latest": "2026-01-21.0",
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:::danger[Shoutout!]

Huge thanks to Ben Clark for getting Overture started on our STAC journey back in 2024. Watch [his talk on STACing GeoParquet](https://youtu.be/FWQz7H99qEs?si=membEVd0JarkKmbn) at the 2025 Cloud Native Geospatial Forum. And thanks to Jennings Anderson for fully realizing Overture's STAC vision and getting us where we are today.

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## Why We Needed This
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Your scripts stay stable even as the underlying data and cloud storage endpoints update.


## Explore the Data
## Explore the Metadata

You can quickly poke around the catalog using the [STAC browser](https://radiantearth.github.io/stac-browser/#/external/stac.overturemaps.org/catalog.json). Click into any release and theme, and you'll find links to GeoParquet files on AWS and Azure. You'll also see PMTiles listed under additional resources. Hover over those for a link to load the tiles directly in [PMTiles Viewer](https://pmtiles.io/). This is the data that powers our [Explorer](https://explore.overturemaps.org/) site.

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- https://github.com/OvertureMaps/explore-site — Explorer


You can also build your own thing with Overture STAC. Here's a tiny website I made [this](https://danabauer.github.io/overture-latest/) to share at meetups and conferences. It answers a question I consistently get from users: what's the latest Overture release? You can grab the source code [here](https://github.com/danabauer/overture-latest) if you want.
You can also build your own thing with Overture STAC. Here's a tiny website I made [this](https://danabauer.github.io/overture-latest/) to share at meetups and conferences. It answers a question I consistently get from users: what's the latest Overture release? You can grab the source code [here](https://github.com/danabauer/overture-latest).

:::tip[Talk to us]

We want to hear about your experience using Overture Maps. Share your ideas and questions on our [GitHub Discussion Forum](https://github.com/orgs/OvertureMaps/discussions) or reach out to us at community@overturemaps.org.

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*Huge thanks to Ben Clark for getting Overture started on our STAC journey back in 2024 and to Jennings Anderson for fully realizing Overture's STAC vision. Y'all are the best.*