Good Enough Maps Overture Places release digest: June 2026
Overture published 2026-06-17.0 on June 17, 2026, and lists it as the current release in the release calendar as of this post.
For Places, this is a cleanup release more than a feature release. That is still worth attention, because cleanup changes can move counts and search behavior.
What is in the June 2026 release notes
Overture’s June 2026 release notes say:
- the data release is
2026-06-17.0 - the schema version is
v1.17.0 - base, buildings, divisions, places, and transportation are GA
- addresses remain alpha
- Places now filters out features whose location falls outside the boundary of the country named by the feature’s country code
- the
categoriesproperty remains deprecated and is planned to be removed in the September 2026 release, replaced bybasic_categoryandtaxonomy
That country-code filter is the meaningful Places change. Overture notes that it applies everywhere but is most visible as a large reduction of features in the ocean.
Why the country-code filter matters
Badly located POIs are worse than missing POIs. A restaurant record floating offshore can pass a naive text search and then confuse ranking, distance, and map display.
Filtering places whose location falls outside the boundary named by their country code is a data-quality improvement. It does not mean every remaining feature is perfect, but it removes a class of obvious geographic mismatch before downstream services ever index the data.
If you self-host Overture Places, this is the kind of release that should trigger a before/after check:
- total feature count by country
- zero-result rates in coastal cities
- nearest-neighbor oddities around islands and borders
- category counts after filtering
- any internal overrides that targeted now-removed records
The category transition is still coming
The June notes say categories is deprecated and planned for removal in September 2026, with basic_category and taxonomy replacing it.
If your pipeline still reads categories directly, do not wait until the removal release. Add the new fields to your internal model, compare behavior, and update downstream code while both shapes are available.
Good Enough Maps still returns a small categories array in the public API. That is our response contract, not a promise about Overture’s upstream fields. We absorb source schema movement behind the public API.
Good Enough Maps production status
Good Enough Maps production coverage currently references Overture release 2026-05-20.0 in our coverage data. We do not promote a new Overture release just because it exists. It has to clear build and validation checks first.
That slower promotion is deliberate. A hosted API has a different obligation than a public data bucket. The bucket can publish the new data. The API has to keep customer search behavior stable enough to trust.
FAQ
What is the latest Overture release?
As of June 23, 2026, Overture lists 2026-06-17.0 as the latest data release.
What changed for Places in June 2026?
Overture now filters places whose location falls outside the boundary of the country named by the feature’s country code. The release notes say this applies everywhere and is especially visible as a reduction of ocean features.
Is Good Enough Maps serving the June release?
Not yet in this digest. Good Enough Maps production coverage still references 2026-05-20.0 until the newer release clears validation.
Last validated 2026-06-23.