BrightQuery has joined the Overture Maps Foundation as a general member.

The company claims to be the provider of the largest global entity graph of organisations, legal entities, locations, addresses and people.

For its part, the Overture Maps Foundation is a collaborative effort to build a foundational base layer of map data to facilitate data exchange by bringing together leading technology, geospatial, and other organisations.

According to the Foundation, the addition of BrightQuery to its membership will strengthen its aim to deliver high-quality, interoperable open mapping data.

“High-quality places and entity data are essential building blocks for modern mapping and geospatial applications,” said Will Mortenson, Executive Director at Overture Maps Foundation.

“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.”

Global government records

BrightQuery’s global coverage includes more than 324 million organisations, 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.

“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,” said Jose Plehn, CEO and Founder of BrightQuery.

“Joining Overture supports our commitment to open, streamlined data infrastructure that enables better mapping, analytics, and AI outcomes for all.”

BrightQuery will collaborate with Overture’s working groups and members on schema alignment, entity resolution, and data quality frameworks.

The company is active in the open data and open standards community and is a lead partner for the US National Secure Data Service and a primary government data supplier for leading AI companies.