OpenStreetBrowser

OpenStreetBrowser
Author:	plepe/OpenStreetBrowser/graphs/contributors
License:	(free of charge)
Platform:	Web
Version:	5.2 releases (2022-08-22)
Language:	multiple languages
Website:	openstreetbrowser.org
Source code:	plepe/OpenStreetBrowser
Interactively browse not only the map but also the contained information.

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 in the end of 2008. Since then it had it ups and downs - in 2016 it was no longer maintainable (it had its own database that time which uses 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 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

Important modules

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

Web links

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