Bot

A bot (derived from the word "robot") is a tool that carries out repetitive and mundane automated edits on a regular basis to help maintain OpenStreetMap.

Bots are able to make edits very rapidly and can disrupt OpenStreetMap if they are incorrectly designed or operated.

The automated edits code of conduct should always be followed when creating, operating or modifying a bot.

List of mapping bots

Note that this list is far from complete. Please create an entry in the list if you operate a bot or come across one not documented here.

Some bots are documented in the wiki following either the schema Automated edits/<Username> or Mechanical Edits/<Username> [<Description>]. Category:Automated edits log might be helpful as well.

List of wiki bots

There are also bots operating in this wiki. Some of them are in the user group "bot" (Special:ListUsers) meaning that the user accounts have special user rights. Apart from that, ordinary user accounts used by bots exist, notably ToniE osm wiki bot. Some bot accounts are listed in Category:Bots.

Wiki bureaucrats can grant the bot's user rights to user accounts upon request. This enables higher query limits and disables CAPTCHA for them.

The use of bots has been discussed on the talk mailing list in February 2019.

If you have a task for a bot or want to create one, you can add a subject in this page: Talk:Wiki

Bot name	Description	Active / Last used	Owner / operator contact	Language(s)
Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account	Remove dead wikidata parameters	Sept 2022	Mateusz Konieczny (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
MissingImageInfoBot	Add Template:Used outside the Wiki to files referenced by wiki:symbol=* - example edit code add uploader user names on -self suffixed templates - example edit code notify uploaders of CC file without attribution data code prepares files qualified for notification about missing license - example edit code	Sept 2022	Mateusz Konieczny (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
OsmLogBot	IRC/wiki bot, was used for logging stuff to Servers/admin_log	2012	Firefishy (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
Osmonitor	A piece of software that analyzes OSM data and produces reports based on that data	2013	Ppawel (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
PolyBOT	Only the WikiProject Netherlands/Cycle Routes/Node Network page, the BOT account was mainly be used to semi-automatically upload progress reports about the state of the cycle node networks	2011	Polyglot (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
TTTBot	Creating and updating tables with information about software products in the OpenStreetMap wiki using data from Software2 templates	Oct 2014	Tordanik (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
TigerfellBot	It is used for the execution of scripts and other semi-automatic or automatic changes within the wiki.	2018-2022	Tigerfell (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
Usage Bot	The bot maintains galleries under Wiki:Files used by data items listing files used by the image (P28) and OSM Carto image (P39) properties.	2022	Ben Harris (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
UserGroupsBot	This is a bot written in Python, collecting all Template:User_group together (every 6 hours) and generating a KML file to show them on a map: http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de	2011	!i! (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)  Haribo (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English
Yurikbot	Mostly I update data items using metabot	Jun 2020	Yurik (on OSM · edits · contribs · heatmap · comments)	English

See also

Organised editing

Read more about teams editing OSM

Automated edits

referring to the broader concept of changing data without reviewing every change individually