Operations Working Group

The Operations Working Group (OWG) is responsible for proposing the budget for, and running of the servers owned by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Services

Domain name	Priority	Description	Usage policy
api.openstreetmap.org	P1	the editing API	API Usage Policy
planet.openstreetmap.org	P1	distribution of planet files and diffs	use torrents or a mirror if possible
www.openstreetmap.org	P1	the web front end	Terms of Use
tile.openstreetmap.org	P2	raster tile provider	Tile Usage Policy
nominatim.openstreetmap.org	P2	Nominatim instance	Nominatim Usage Policy
wiki.openstreetmap.org	P2	this wiki
taginfo.openstreetmap.org	P3	Taginfo instance
community.openstreetmap.org	P3	the community forum

Note that the OWG operates more services than listed in this table; the table is just meant to give you an overview over the most important services.

Policies

Please respect the usage policies of the services linked in the above table. Other policies of the OWG include:

• Hosting Provider Credit Policy
• Operations Working Group Membership Policy
• Sysadmin Membership Policy

Contacts

• To report an issue or problem: Operations issues tracker on GitHub.
• By email: operationsosmfoundationorg
• Follow the operations on Twitter: @OSM_Tech

(also on Fediverse  @osm_tech@en.osm.town)

See also

• Operations Working Group, description page on the wiki of the OpenStreetMap Foundation.
  • operations.osmfoundation.org, website of the OWG with its policies, reports, and meetings.
  • hardware.openstreetmap.org, list of current OSMF Hardware.
  • Operations issues tracker on GitHub.
  • System monitoring
• Platform Status, summary. (Note: this page is maintained by the community and may not be up to date with current outages or issues)