BrightQuery Joins Overture Maps Foundation to Expand Open Places Data Coverage

New General Member to provide large-scale global entity and locations dataset spanning 324M organizations and 512M locations

Published on Feb. 25, 2026

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Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build a foundational base layer of map data, has announced that BrightQuery, a provider of the largest global entity graph of organizations, legal entities, locations, addresses, and people, has joined the Foundation as a General Member. Through its membership and data contributions, BrightQuery will significantly expand global coverage of organizations, locations, and address-level entities, strengthening the Foundation's mission to deliver high-quality, interoperable open map data.

Why it matters

High-quality places and entity data are essential building blocks for modern mapping and geospatial applications. Expanding authoritative global places coverage helps improve accuracy, interoperability, and developer trust across the open mapping ecosystem.

The details

BrightQuery's global coverage includes more than 324 million organizations, 512 million locations, and 1.2 billion people across 222 countries. The company's data is sourced from more than 100,000 federal, state, and local government agencies through official public filings and authoritative records. BrightQuery will collaborate with Overture's working groups and members on schema alignment, entity resolution, and data quality frameworks.

  • Overture Maps Foundation was founded in 2022.
  • BrightQuery has joined Overture Maps Foundation as a General Member in February 2026.

The players

Overture Maps Foundation

A collaborative effort to build a foundational base layer of map data to facilitate data exchange, bringing together leading technology, geospatial, and other organizations.

BrightQuery

A provider of the largest global entity graph of organizations, legal entities, locations, addresses, and people, with coverage spanning 324 million organizations, 512 million locations, and 1.2 billion people across 222 countries.

Will Mortenson

Executive Director at Overture Maps Foundation.

Jose Plehn

CEO and Founder of BrightQuery.

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What they’re saying

“High-quality places and entity data are essential building blocks for modern mapping and geospatial applications. We are pleased to welcome BrightQuery as a General Member and look forward to its planned contribution. Expanding authoritative global places coverage helps improve accuracy, interoperability, and developer trust across the open mapping ecosystem.”

— Will Mortenson, Executive Director

“We are excited to be collaborating with Overture Maps Foundation members and helping to enhance open location data coverage and accuracy for the benefit of the mapping community. Joining Overture supports our commitment to open, streamlined data infrastructure that enables better mapping, analytics, and AI outcomes for all.”

— Jose Plehn, CEO and Founder

What’s next

BrightQuery will collaborate with Overture's working groups and members on schema alignment, entity resolution, and data quality frameworks to further enhance the Overture Places dataset.

The takeaway

The partnership between Overture Maps Foundation and BrightQuery will significantly expand the coverage and quality of open location data, benefiting the broader mapping and geospatial ecosystem by improving accuracy, interoperability, and developer trust.