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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.
| Bot name | Description | Active / Last used | OSM data submitting account |
Owner / operator contact |
Language(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digitaleo | First-party business data entered by the business owners themselves on the Digitaleo platform | Daily |  |
|
French, English |
| confusedbuffalo-bot | Fix basic phone number formatting issues | Daily | |
|
English |
| Gtfs2osm | Imports GTFS data to Israel | Every couple of days | |
|
English, Hebrew, Arabic |
| Nzau_bot | Modification / deletion obsolete tag in France | 2025 June | |
|
French |
| NotesReminderBot | This bot creates reminders for notes. It can be used to track expected completion dates for tasks or constructions | Dayly | |
|
English |
| davidfaure_bot | Fixes opening hours values | 2024 May | |
|
French, English |
| NeisBot | Solving some issues with OSM notes and commenting problematic changesets | 2024 May | |
|
English |
| kmpoppe (@ Mapillary Update) | Updating Mapillary image IDs | 2022 Aug | |
|
English |
| merylstreet_semibot | Adding recycling points from Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur Open Data API | 2022 Aug | |
merylstreet | French, English |
| TTmechanicalupdates | Bot run by the TomTom team to perform various automated edits | 2022 May | |
TTmechanicalupdates@groups.tomtom.com | English |
| cquest_bot | Update opendata sources like INSEE population on France admin relations | 2022 Jan | |
|
French, English |
| b-jazz-bot | Converts http website values to https, where appropriate (worldwide activity). | 2022 Jan | |
|
English |
| Mateusz Konieczny - bot account | numerous worldwide changes, see documentation | 2022 Jan | |
|
English, Polish |
| autoAWS | Updates address nodes in Denmark from official government source | every minute Fr-Mo | |
|
English, Danish |
| czechreg | Makes automatic corrections (and updates) of Czech administrative boundaries and places. | 2018 Apr | |
|
English |
| SearchAroundBot | Lets Telegram users insert new nodes in OSM via the Telegram bot  @SearchAroundBot. Currently limited to drinking_water and toilets amenities.
|
2021 Oct | |
@Kercos
|
English |
| Tag Upgrade Bot | Fixing a multitude of tagging issues by adding, updating, and removing tags | 2024 Feb | |
|
English |
| M!dgardAutomated | Automated changes mostly in Belgium, automatic reverting of changesets by vandals | 2018 March | |
[[1]][1] Wiki: User:M!dgard |
English, Dutch, French |
| SafwatHalaby_bot | Performs various tasks related to name tags, bus stops, and brands/chain stores (for now in Israel). | 2018 January | |
|
English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian |
| AWSBot | Updated address nodes in Denmark from official government source | 2017 July | |
||
| mechanischer Basstoelpel | Search and replace operations in Germany. | 2016 October | |
|
English, German |
| xybot | Cleanup of tags, removing null tags, trimming leading and trailing spaces, correcting common typos. | 2016 March | |
|
English, German |
| Streetkeysmv | Adds official German street keys to ways in province Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. | 2016 February | |
|
English, German |
| Wall-E | Carries out automatic corrections of specific errors in Germany and Austria. | 2015 August | |
|
English |
| botika | Used to repair street names in Colombia. | 2013 May | |
|
English, Spanish |
| General Dreedle | Automatically reverts edits by blacklisted contributors. | 2013 January | |
|
English |
| MS BOT | Makes adjustments to tags within French speaking community. | 2012 November | |
|
French |
| BugBuster | Splits long ways, removes duplicate nodes (worldwide activity). | 2012 October | |
|
English |
| Fixbot | Algorithmic changes can be made within a defined geographical areas (mostly in the United States). | 2012 March | |
|
English, German |
| PierenBot | Automated edits in France | 2011 September | |
|
English, French |
| Hotbot | Expands abbreviations in tags in Dominican Republic and Haiti. | 2011 May | |
Humanitarian OSM Team | English |
| Import_US_OK_Murray | Murray import in Murray Country, US | 2011 January | |
English | |
| MikeNBulk | NHD import in US | 2010 February | |
English | |
| DaveHansenTiger | TIGER import in US | 2009 Ocbober | |
|
English |
| Corine Land Cover | Import WikiProject Corine Land Cover in France | 2009 October | |
|
French, English |
| Australian Bureau for Statistics | Import | 2009 March | |
English | |
| is_in-bot | Adds is_in=* tags to places in Germany.
|
2008 November | |
|
English, German |
| Coastline Southern Africa | Importing coastlines | 2007 November | |
|
English |
| Coastlines-RJB | Import in Africa and Galapagos | 2007 August | |
|
English |
| Adam Geitgey | SanGIS import around San Diego, California, user account also used for bot editing | ? | |
|
English |
| jumbanho | Import NHD in US, also used as regular user account | ? | |
|
English |
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.[2]
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 | |
English |
| MissingImageInfoBot | Sept 2022 | |
English | |
| OsmLogBot | IRC/wiki bot, was used for logging stuff to Servers/admin_log | 2012 | |
English |
| Osmonitor | A piece of software that analyzes OSM data and produces reports based on that data | 2013 | |
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 | |
English |
| TTTBot | Creating and updating tables with information about software products in the OpenStreetMap wiki using data from Software2 templates | Oct 2014 | |
English |
| TigerfellBot | It is used for the execution of scripts and other semi-automatic or automatic changes within the wiki. | 2018-2022 | |
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 | |
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 | |
English |
| Yurikbot | Mostly I update data items using metabot | Jun 2020 | |
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
Footnotes
- ↑ user name ends with some map symbol that the wiki can not display on a page
- ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-February/thread.html#82096