Project Terraforma, developed by contributors from UCSC, the Overture Maps Foundation, and partner organizations, creates open-source datasets and tools that power high-quality, reusable data pipelines for processing, mapping, navigation, and spatial AI.

Students gain innovation skills through hands-on mapping and spatial computing projects. Working with faculty and industry partners, they address real-world challenges and aim to release open-source code for the broader mapping community.

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Biannual summits unite leaders from Overture, its partners, and UC Santa Cruz to align on priorities, review research progress, and refine goals. A structured discovery process helps surface and rank project ideas, while ongoing initiatives are assessed, extended, or concluded.

Graduate students collaborate on industry partner defined problems offering complex, longer-term spatial computing challenges. Projects aim to produce publishable research and open-source tools or datasets.