Automated edits/TTmechanicalupdates
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TomTom is a Dutch multinational developer and creator of location technology and consumer electronics. TomTom has been making edits in OpenStreetMap through Organised Editing since 2021. For edits done automatically TomTom is using TTmechanicalupdates bot account.
Contact
Team responsible for this bot account can be contacted via e-mail at ttmechanicalupdates@groups.tomtom.com.
Ongoing updates
- Netherlands - 3D BAG Building Heights Import -- enriching Dutch OSM buildings with
height=*tags sourced from the 3DBAG dataset (TU Delft and 3DGI). CC BY 4.0 waiver to OpenStreetMap and its users signed 2 June 2026; public copy of the signed waiver. - Japan - PLATEAU Building Height Enrichment -- enriching Japanese OSM buildings with
height=*tags sourced from Project PLATEAU (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, MLIT). PLATEAU is multi-licensed (CC BY 4.0 / ODbL / ODC-BY) and is ODbL-compatible under the PLATEAU terms.
- France - IGN BD TOPO Building Heights Import -- enriching French OSM buildings (Paris pilot) with
height=*andbuilding:levels=*tags sourced from IGN BD TOPO, with Volumes bâtis (Ville de Paris) as a secondary fallback source. BD TOPO is published under Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0 (ODbL-compatible per OSMF); Volumes bâtis is ODbL-native. No waiver or LWG review required. - Germany - Berlin Umweltatlas Building Heights Import -- enriching German OSM buildings (Berlin) with
height=*tags sourced from Gebäudehöhen (Umweltatlas) published by the Senatsverwaltung Berlin. Published under Datenlizenz Deutschland Zero 2.0; ODbL-compatible. Berlin Senate has issued an explicit OSM release dated 3 June 2019. No waiver or LWG review required.
Completed updates
All automatic edits done by TomTom are described in details on the following pages: