Places · 2,302 categories

Overture Maps places taxonomy

Overture Maps places taxonomy, as Overture Maps Foundation publishes it (2026-10-21.0): 2,302 categories, 13 top-level categories at the top, up to 6 levels deep. Search it, browse it as a tree, and see which names it shares with the other lists on this site.

Overture says its new taxonomy and basic_category properties are “designed to better categorize location entities such as businesses, landmarks, and attractions and facilitate search, display, and navigation in map applications.”

Download the full list: Excel (108 KB) · CSV (311 KB) · 2,302 rows, each with the other lists that use the same or a similar name. CC BY 4.0, © Overture Maps Foundation.

categories
2,302
top-level categories
13
Levels
6
Version
2026-10-21.0
Same name in another list
480and 38 with only a similar name

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  • Arts and Entertainmentarts_and_entertainment
    • Amusement Attractionamusement_attraction
    • Animal Attractionanimal_attraction
    • Arts and Crafts Spacearts_and_crafts_space
    • Event Venueevent_venue
    • Festival Venuefestival_venue
    • Gaming Venuegaming_venue
    • Movie Theatermovie_theater
    • Museummuseum
    • Nightlife Venuenightlife_venue
    • Performing Arts Venueperforming_arts_venue
    • Rural Attractionrural_attraction
    • Science Attractionscience_attraction
    • Social Clubsocial_club
    • Spiritual Advisingspiritual_advising
    • Stadium Arenastadium_arena
    • Ticket Office or Boothticket_office_or_booth
  • Community and Governmentcommunity_and_government
    • Civic Organizationcivic_organization
    • Government Officegovernment_office
    • Military Sitemilitary_site
    • Public Facilitypublic_facility
    • Public Safety Servicepublic_safety_service
    • Public Utilitypublic_utility
    • Social or Community Servicesocial_or_community_service
  • Cultural and Historiccultural_and_historic
    • Cultural Centercultural_center
    • Historic Sitehistoric_site
    • Memorial Sitememorial_site
    • Place of Worshipplace_of_worship
    • Religious Landmarkreligious_landmark
    • Religious Organizationreligious_organization
    • Religious Retreat or Centerreligious_retreat_or_center
  • Educationeducation
    • Education Officeeducation_office
    • Educational Facilityeducational_facility
    • Educational Serviceeducational_service
    • Librarylibrary
    • Place of Learningplace_of_learning
    • Research Instituteresearch_institute
  • Food and Drinkfood_and_drink
    • Alcoholic Beverage Venuealcoholic_beverage_venue
    • Casual Eaterycasual_eatery
    • Non-Alcoholic Beverage Venuenon_alcoholic_beverage_venue
    • Restaurantrestaurant
  • Geographic Entitiesgeographic_entities
    • Built Featurebuilt_feature
    • Land Featureland_feature
    • Scenic Viewpointscenic_viewpoint
    • Water Featurewater_feature
  • Health Carehealth_care
    • Emergency or Urgent Care Facilityemergency_or_urgent_care_facility
    • Hospitalhospital
    • Medical Servicemedical_service
    • Outpatient Care Facilityoutpatient_care_facility
    • Specialized Medical Facilityspecialized_medical_facility
  • Lifestyle Serviceslifestyle_services
    • Animal or Pet Serviceanimal_or_pet_service
    • Food Servicefood_service
    • Personal or Beauty Servicepersonal_or_beauty_service
    • Wellness Servicewellness_service
  • Lodginglodging
    • Bed and Breakfastbed_and_breakfast
    • Cabincabin
    • Campgroundcampground
    • Cottagecottage
    • Country Housecountry_house
    • Holiday Parkholiday_park
    • Hostelhostel
    • Hotelhotel
    • Houseboathouseboat
    • Inninn
    • Lodgelodge
    • Mountain Hutmountain_hut
    • Private Lodgingprivate_lodging
    • Resortresort
    • Retreatretreat
    • RV Parkrv_park
    • Ryokanryokan
    • Self Catering Accommodationself_catering_accommodation
    • Service Apartmentservice_apartment
  • Services and Businessservices_and_business
    • Agricultural Serviceagricultural_service
    • B2B Serviceb2b_service
    • Building or Construction Servicebuilding_or_construction_service
    • Corporate or Business Officecorporate_or_business_office
    • Design Servicedesign_service
    • Environmental or Ecological Serviceenvironmental_or_ecological_service
    • Event or Party Serviceevent_or_party_service
    • Family Servicefamily_service
    • Financial Servicefinancial_service
    • Home Servicehome_service
    • Housing or Property Servicehousing_or_property_service
    • Industrial Facility or Serviceindustrial_facility_or_service
    • Laundry Servicelaundry_service
    • Media Servicemedia_service
    • Printing Serviceprinting_service
    • Professional Serviceprofessional_service
    • Real Estate Servicereal_estate_service
    • Rental Servicerental_service
    • Security Servicesecurity_service
    • Shipping or Delivery Serviceshipping_or_delivery_service
    • Storage Facilitystorage_facility
    • Technical Servicetechnical_service
    • Telecommunications Servicetelecommunications_service
    • Utility Energy Infrastructureutility_energy_infrastructure
  • Shoppingshopping
    • Convenience Storeconvenience_store
    • Department Storedepartment_store
    • Discount Storediscount_store
    • Fashion and Apparel Storefashion_and_apparel_store
    • Food and Beverage Storefood_and_beverage_store
    • Kioskkiosk
    • Marketmarket
    • Second Hand Storesecond_hand_store
    • Shopping Mallshopping_mall
    • Shopping Serviceshopping_service
    • Specialty Storespecialty_store
    • Superstoresuperstore
    • Vehicle Dealervehicle_dealer
    • Warehouse Club Storewarehouse_club_store
  • Sports and Recreationsports_and_recreation
    • Parkpark
    • Recreational Equipment Rentalrecreational_equipment_rental
    • Recreational Trail or Pathrecreational_trail_or_path
    • Sport Leaguesport_league
    • Sport or Fitness Facilitysport_or_fitness_facility
    • Sport or Recreation Clubsport_or_recreation_club
    • Sport Teamsport_team
  • Travel and Transportationtravel_and_transportation
    • Air Transport Facility or Serviceair_transport_facility_or_service
    • Fueling Stationfueling_station
    • Ground Transport Facility or Serviceground_transport_facility_or_service
    • Parkingparking
    • Transport Interchangetransport_interchange
    • Travel Servicetravel_service
    • Vehicle Servicevehicle_service
    • Water Transport Facility or Servicewater_transport_facility_or_service

How are names matched with the other lists?

  • Same name: the two names are equal after lowercasing, trimming spaces at both ends and reading _ as a space.
  • Similar name: the two names are equal after lowercasing, trimming spaces at both ends, reading _ as a space, writing & as and, and dropping from either name a final s that does not follow another s, or a final es after s, x, z, ch or sh.
  • A list is named under “Similar name in” only when it has no category with the same name. Names are compared by these two rules only: no translation, no fuzzy matching and no AI matching.

Where does this list come from?

This copy has 2,302 categories (298 of them basic categories (Overture's isBasic flag)): 13 top-level categories at the top, up to 6 levels deep. Overture Maps Foundation states “a streamlined set of labels (approx. 280) that are less specific than the full 2.1k taxonomy.”; this copy has 2,302 categories. Overture Maps Foundation states “All place categories are now mapped to a "Basic Level Category" (approx. 280 labels like restaurant, museum).”; this copy has 298 basic categories. Overture Maps Foundation states “Reduced top-level categories from 22 to 13.”; this copy has 13 top-level categories.

License: Overture Maps Foundation (where it says so): “The data files in this directory and its subdirectories (*.csv, *.json) are © Overture Maps Foundation and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).” Shared here under CC BY 4.0, credited © Overture Maps Foundation. Read on November 11, 2026.

  • Publisher: Overture Maps Foundation
  • Version: 2026-10-21.0 (The current data release on Overture's Releases page (schema v2.0.0); the Taxonomy Explorer offers the taxonomy files for this release.)
  • Source page: Places Taxonomy
  • File: taxonomy.csv (315,501 bytes, last modified November 4, 2026)
  • Fetched: November 11, 2026
  • SHA-256: 59eecbf9e24859bcdab459e8efeea673b7fcbab06b45bd1c7067f215b3bc25d4

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