Overture Maps Business Leads (Open Places Data)

Get local business leads for any city or map area: name, full address, phone, website, social links, brand, category and coordinates, from the open Overture Maps places dataset (81 million+ places worldwide, release 2026-09-23.1). No Google Maps scraping, no proxies, no login: every row comes from openly licensed data and carries its attribution. The first 25 leads of every run are free.

Who uses it

• Agencies and SaaS sales teams building prospect lists by niche and city (dentists in Austin, cafés in London, plumbers in Sydney)
• Local-SEO and listing-management tools checking which businesses have a website or phone
• Market researchers counting and mapping businesses by category
• Teams that want a licence-clean alternative to Google Maps scrapers

How it works

1. You give a city (plus country and radius) or an exact bounding box, and one or more categories.
2. The actor finds the latest Overture release and queries its public GeoParquet files on Amazon S3 with DuckDB. Only the map tiles and columns it needs are read (bbox and category filters are pushed down), so a city query takes about 10 seconds.
3. Rows are validated, de-duplicated by Overture ID and filtered by your options (requireWebsite, requirePhone, minConfidence). Closed places are dropped.
4. Optional: enrichWebsite visits each business's own homepage (respecting robots.txt and rate limits; a site that shows a captcha is skipped and marked blocked_by_antibot, never bypassed and never charged; only public internet addresses on ports 80/443 are contacted) and adds its schema.org data: opening hours, price range, social profiles, rating.

Input

field	example	notes
city, country, radiusKm	"Austin", "US", 5	city resolved offline from Natural Earth (public domain)
bbox	[-0.15, 51.49, -0.10, 51.52]	min lon, min lat, max lon, max lat; overrides city; max 4 sq. degrees
categories	["dental_clinic", "coffee_shop"]	Overture category slugs; a parent like health_care matches all children
maxLeads	100	1-5000
requireWebsite, requirePhone	true
minConfidence	"0.7"	Overture's 0-1 existence confidence
enrichWebsite	false	extra charge per site with data found

Category slugs follow the Overture taxonomy (e.g. dental_clinic, coffee_shop, restaurant, plumbing, hair_salon, real_estate_agent, lawyer, gym): https://docs.overturemaps.org/schema/concepts/by-theme/places/

What data does it return?

name, categories, primaryCategory, basicCategory, address, street, locality, postcode, region, country, phone, phones, website, websites, socials, brand, brandWikidata, confidence, operatingStatus, lon, lat, overtureId, release, sourceDatasets, licences, attribution, enrichment.

Output example

{"name": "BLVD Dentistry Austin", "primaryCategory": "dental_clinic",
 "address": "1920 E Riverside Dr Ste A140, Austin, TX, 78741, US",
 "phone": "+15126408747", "website": "https://www.blvddentistry.com/austin-riverside/",
 "socials": ["https://www.facebook.com/1603911256555032"], "brand": "BLVD Dentistry Heights",
 "confidence": 1.0, "lon": -97.7282867, "lat": 30.2427959,
 "overtureId": "4ef9a744-d408-4bc0-89bb-3cda49864fca", "release": "2026-09-23.1",
 "sourceDatasets": ["meta", "Overture", "Overture-signals"], "licences": ["CDLA-Permissive-2.0"],
 "attribution": "© Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org (CDLA Permissive 2.0)"}

How much does it cost?

Pay per event, no subscription. Current prices:

• Lead: $0.002 per unique, valid lead ($2 per 1,000). The first 25 leads of every run are free.
• Website enrichment (only if enrichWebsite is on): $0.003 per unique website where business data was found (a chain's shared site is fetched and charged once). Sites with no data, errors or blocks are not charged.
• Duplicates and invalid rows are never charged, and your run's maximum charge is always respected (the actor trims the list before it would go over).

Example: 1,000 dentists across a metro area = 975 paid leads × $0.002 = $1.95. With enrichment and data found on 400 sites: + $1.20 = $3.15 (fewer sites if many leads belong to chains). Platform compute is small: a 100-lead city run takes about 10-20 seconds at 1 GB memory.

Sources & licences

• Overture Maps Foundation, places theme (https://overturemaps.org, https://docs.overturemaps.org/attribution/). Required attribution: "© Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org". The places theme is mostly CDLA-Permissive-2.0 (Community Data License Agreement – Permissive, Version 2.0); per-source licences below (as listed by Overture on 2026-10-12):
  • Meta, Microsoft, PinMeTo, Krick, RenderSEO, DAC, BrightQuery: Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
  • Foursquare: Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Available under Apache 2.0. Foursquare data was transformed to the Overture schema. Changed: 2026-03-18. See Foursquare's NOTICE.txt (linked from the Overture attribution page).
  • AllThePlaces: Available under CC0 1.0.
• The places theme contains no OpenStreetMap (ODbL) data. The actor still checks every row: a place is returned only if all its contributing sources are CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache-2.0 or CC0-1.0. Overture's ODbL themes (divisions, transportation) are not used.
• City names are resolved with Natural Earth populated places (public domain, https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/), embedded in the actor. No Nominatim or other geocoding service is called.
• Every row repeats its licences, sourceDatasets and attribution. Keep the attribution when you redistribute the data.

Personal data and marketing rules

Rows describe businesses. Overture's emails field is deliberately not exported, and website enrichment never reads person, founder, employee, author or email fields. Some small businesses (sole traders, practices named after a doctor) are a person, so names and phone numbers can still be personal data. You are responsible for how you use the leads. Key rules (not legal advice):

• EU/UK GDPR: you need a lawful basis (e.g. legitimate interests with a balancing test). Because you did not collect the data from the person, Article 14 requires you to tell them who you are, why you hold their data and where it came from (Overture Maps), within one month or at first contact, and to honour objections and erasure requests.
• UK PECR: screen numbers against the TPS (individuals and sole traders) and CTPS (companies) before live sales calls; unsolicited marketing texts/emails to individuals and sole traders need prior consent.
• US CAN-SPAM: commercial email must have accurate headers and subject lines, identify itself as an ad, include your physical postal address and a working opt-out honoured within 10 business days.
• US TCPA and the National Do Not Call Registry: scrub numbers against the National DNC Registry (and state lists) before telemarketing calls; autodialled or prerecorded calls and marketing texts to mobile numbers need prior express written consent; respect calling-hour limits and internal do-not-call requests.

FAQ

Is this scraping Google Maps? No. It reads Overture's open dataset, which is published for reuse. Nothing is taken from Google, Yelp or social networks.

How fresh is the data? Overture publishes a new release roughly monthly; each row shows its release. The actor always uses the latest one.

Why did I get 0 results? Check the category slug (e.g. dental_clinic, not dentist). The run summary (RUN_SUMMARY) lists the area searched and why rows were dropped.

Can I search a whole country? Split it into areas of up to 4 square degrees per run (for example one run per city).

Is it legal? The data is openly licensed and every row is attributed; website enrichment honours robots.txt, skips any site showing a captcha (never bypassed) and refuses private or internal network addresses. Not legal advice.