OpenStreetBrowser

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OpenStreetBrowser
OpenStreetBrowser screenshot.png
Author: plepe/OpenStreetBrowser/graphs/contributors
License: (free of charge)
Platform: Web
Version: 5.3 releases (2022-10-25)
Language: multiple languages
Website: openstreetbrowser.org
Source code: plepe/OpenStreetBrowser

Interactively browse not only the map but also the contained information.

Openstreetbrowser logo.svg

The OpenStreetBrowser (openstreetbrowser.org) is an application to 'browse' through the information in the displayed part of the map. The aim of the project is to provide a highly dynamic map that makes every mapped feature easily available to the user.

Features

  • Browse map content in certain categories.
  • Wikipedia integration and images (from image, wikipedia, wikimedia_commons, wikidata tags)
  • It uses the Overpass API to access the map data and therefore (almost) up-to-date.
  • Export selected object or visible map features in various formats (GeoJSON, OSM formats).
  • You can create categories yourself, check this howto.
  • OpenStreetBrowser is already available in several languages. Follow this how-to to improve translations or create a new one!

History

OpenStreetBrowser started at the end of 2008. Since then it had its ups and downs - in 2016 it was no longer maintainable (it had its own database at that time which used a lot of expensive server resources) and I had to shut it down. In 2017 it was reborn with a new implementation which uses Overpass API. It's been running since then. Read about progress on the OpenStreetBrowser Blog.

How to contribute

Important modules

See also

External links