OpenStreetBrowser

OpenStreetBrowser
Author:	Skunk and GitHub contributors GitHub
License:	(free of charge)
Platform:	Web
Version:	5.4 releases (2024-07-23)
Language:	multiple languages
Website:	openstreetbrowser.org
Source code:	plepe/OpenStreetBrowser GitHub
Interactively browse not only the map but also the contained information.
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data ? Source ? Rotate map ? 3D view ? Shows website yes Shows phone number yes Shows operation hours yes Routing ? Navigating Navigate ? Find location YES Find nearby POIs YES Navigate to point ? Navigation with voice / Voice guidance ? Keep on road ? Lane guidance ? Works without GPS ? Navigate along predefined route ? Tracking ? Monitoring ? Editing ? Rendering ? Accessibility ?

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

• Translate OpenStreetBrowser (Statistics & List of contributors)
• Create your own categories
• Discuss (and implement) ideas for categories in Github issues ^GitHub

Important modules

• overpass-frontend ^GitHub: Library for accessing the database and caching the data}}
• overpass-layer ^GitHub: Module on top of overpass-frontend which shows data on a Leaflet Map}}
• openstreetmap-tag-translations ^GitHub: Translations of OSM tags
• Leaflet: Popular library for showing maps on websites

See also

• List of OSM-based services

External links

• OpenStreetBrowser
• Blog
• Source on GitHub ^GitHub
• Categories source ^GitHub
• Translation of UI texts are done via weblate (with the exception of date formatting).