OpenStreetBrowser
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OpenStreetBrowser | |
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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).