Mark Litwintschik 2/2/2026

72M Points of Interest

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This article provides a detailed technical examination of the Overture Maps Foundation's 'Places' dataset, which contains over 72 million global points of interest (POIs). It covers recent dataset improvements, the author's high-performance workstation specifications, and the step-by-step setup of a Python environment, DuckDB with extensions, and QGIS for data analysis and visualization.

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