35 stories tagged openstreetmap, newest first.
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
28 points by nimitmehra | 8 comments
Dovepass is a web tool that checks whether a drone can legally and safely fly a given route in San Francisco, considering FAA airspace, parks, buildings, wind and battery.
306 points by edent | 63 comments
An interactive analysis by Wonyoung So of OpenStreetMap data for North Korea, examining who its contributors are and how and why they mapped the country.
304 points by ishan0102 | 111 comments
Flatten SF is a web map tool that finds walking or biking routes across San Francisco, trading distance for less hill climbing.
178 points by karakoram | 76 comments
An interactive 3D globe from mapped.earth showing 75,919 charted lighthouses and navigation lights worldwide, each flashing on its real light cycle.
611 points by Snowly | 169 comments
GitHub issue serving as the master ticket coordinating development and testing of an iOS port of the StreetComplete OpenStreetMap editing app.
8 points by 91awebsi | 5 comments
Interactive data visualization mapping US roads whose names match over 1,000 themes derived by cross-referencing Wikidata articles with OpenStreetMap roads.
596 points by juliantigler | 139 comments
A quick tutorial guiding newcomers to make a first OpenStreetMap edit by adding an official website tag to a nearby shop or amenity.
318 points by surreal_ | 91 comments
GitHub repository by PhiloLabs containing AI-generated 3D worlds built in code, including a Three.js digital twin of Union Square, San Francisco.
502 points by zoenolan | 135 comments
An interactive Leaflet map plotting public webcams along the path of totality of the August 2026 solar eclipse across Iceland and Spain, with a countdown timer.
773 points by kls0e | 192 comments
Homepage of StreetComplete, an Android app for surveying and improving OpenStreetMap data, with Google Play and F-Droid download links.
730 points by basilikum | 180 comments
Homepage of CoMaps, a free and open-source, community-driven offline maps app for hiking, biking, and driving navigation with privacy.
1073 points by tosh | 337 comments
Homepage of Organic Maps, a free, open-source, privacy-focused offline maps and GPS navigation app for hiking, cycling and driving built on OpenStreetMap data.
566 points by anjel | 206 comments
DeFlock's interactive map of Flock license plate reader cameras across the United States, showing clustered camera counts by region.
414 points by efskap | 92 comments
Open Infrastructure Map is an interactive globe map showing power lines, telecoms, oil, gas and other infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data.
319 points by maelito | 201 comments
CoMaps news post announcing a community-led, not-for-profit fork of Organic Maps, copied from an open letter to Organic Maps shareholders.
536 points by TeMPOraL | 335 comments
A personal write-up testing whether kebab shops closer to train stations get worse ratings, using network routing distances and restaurant review data.
436 points by jamesy0ung | 64 comments
GitHub repository for Arnis, a Rust tool that generates real-world locations in Minecraft Java Edition from OpenStreetMap data.
430 points by gaws | 52 comments
City Roads is a web tool by anvaka that renders every road within a chosen city using OpenStreetMap data, starting from a city name search box.
1187 points by agilek | 171 comments
Interactive historical map showing region borders over time with a year slider, plus sections for rulers, people, and battles.
444 points by marklit | 142 comments
Mark Litwintschik's blog post examining OpenStreetMap's new vector tiles, which supplement its long-standing pre-rendered raster PNG tiles.
333 points by dschuessler | 142 comments
Mundraub's interactive map of publicly accessible fruit trees, shrubs, herbs and nuts for foraging, mainly across Germany and Central Europe.
781 points by hyperknot | 222 comments
Homepage of OpenFreeMap, an open-source map tile hosting project using OpenStreetMap data, offering a free public instance or self-hosting.
403 points by faebi | 145 comments
An X (Twitter) post from Organic Maps reporting that Google removed the Organic Maps app from the Play Store; the post content did not load.
373 points by gemanor | 103 comments
A Substack essay by OpenStreetMap founder Steve Coast reflecting on the project's 20th anniversary and its early growth.
648 points by tppiotrowski | 181 comments
ShadeMap is an interactive web map that simulates shadows from terrain, buildings, and trees for any location, date, and time.
328 points by todsacerdoti | 33 comments
Blog post by Mary Knize on rendering OpenStreetMap data to an HTML5 canvas using Rust and WebAssembly, for a revamp of her Disney wait-times project Line Buddy.
348 points by udev4096 | 83 comments
NearbyWiki is an interactive map web app that shows Wikipedia-listed places near a chosen location.
377 points by wcedmisten | 135 comments
WaterwayMap is an interactive map showing how waterways and canals are connected in OpenStreetMap data, with randomly colored connected river networks.
847 points by Amithv | 195 comments
Sit in Shade is a web app that takes origin, destination, date and time to recommend which bus seat side avoids sun exposure.
909 points by rcarmo | 147 comments
Homepage of Protomaps, an open source map of the world deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.
396 points by gslin | 65 comments
Mastodon post from OpenStreetMap announcing the Tracestrack Topo map style on OpenStreetMap.org, a mix of osm-carto and OpenTopoMap with more tag support and i18n.
1253 points by LeoPanthera | 454 comments
Homepage of Organic Maps, a free, open-source, privacy-focused offline maps app for Android and iOS based on OpenStreetMap and forked from Maps.me.
326 points by molly_radstowe | 50 comments
OpenStreetMap Blog post marking OSM's 19th birthday and announcing an online fundraising campaign to support the project's future.
384 points by chippy | 87 comments
Overture Maps Foundation blog post announcing its first worldwide open map dataset, covering layers such as places, buildings, transportation, and administrative boundaries.