Search engines

Searching for the location of an object in the OSM database is useful for many purposes.

Besides rendering, searching is an important step towards routing. So this is about approaches to search OSM or to link it with the web.

Geocoding

See Geocoding.

DuckDuckGo shortcuts

DuckDuckGo offers quite a few Bang operators for directly linking to an object, or forming search queries.

• !osm
  ,
  !OSt
  ,
  !openstreet
  ,
  !openstreetmap
  ,
  !openmaps
  ,
  !omap
  ,
  !geouri
  searching as in www.openstreetmap.org.
  • !OSMnode
    direct id
  • !OSMway
    direct id
  • !OSMrelation
    direct id
• !osmfr
  OSM-Fr
• !nominatim
  directly searching in Nominatim.
• !taginfo
  for Taginfo
• !OSMCha
  for OSMCha
• !hdyc
  for How did you contribute?
• !osmw
  ,
  !wosm
  ,
  !osmwiki
  ,
  !openstreetmapwiki
  this OSM wiki
• !hosm
  OSM Help
• !osmforum
  OSM Forum

The operators are not case sensitive.