Meta Transitions Basemaps to Overture
Form the Overture blog:
Meta, one of the founding members of Overture Maps Foundation, has successfully transitioned its suite of global basemaps used across apps such as Facebook and Instagram to Overture’s base data layers
It seems that this move also marks the end of Daylight Map Distribution.
The goal was to build an up-to-date, validated, global basemap using OpenStreetMap that could power all of Meta’s use cases. Daylight included validation checks designed to find and correct mapping errors, building footprint detections, lidar derived building heights, name translations, and a global land cover layer. This global dataset was made publicly available and has served the maps at Meta for the past five years.
As a founding member of Overture, Meta has been deeply involved in developing the processes that produce Overture’s published data. In fact, the very same validation processes and pipelines that were used in Daylight are also now used to produce Overture’s regular data releases.
Notice the past tense. There is no official announcement confirming Daylight’s end of life. But there hasn’t been an update since November 2024 after more than four years of at least twice-monthly releases.