http://www.openstreetmap.org/images/osm_logo.png" alt=""/> OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org) is a global collaborative mapping project, which offers maps and map data released with an open license, encouraging free re-use and re-distribution. The data is created by a large community of volunteers who use a variety of simple on-the-ground surveying techniques, and wiki-syle editing tools to collaborate as they create the maps, in a process which is open to everyone. The project originated in London, and an active community of mappers and developers are based here. Mapping work in London is ongoing (and you can help!) but the coverage is already good enough for many uses.

Browse the map of London on OpenStreetMap.org

Downloads:

The whole of England updated daily:

• england.osm.bz2 ~185M - .osm formatted raw XML data (compressed)
• england.shp.zip ~156M - ESRI shapefiles

For more details of downloads available from OpenStreetMap, including downloading the whole planet, see 'planet.osm' on the wiki.

Data access APIs:

Download small areas of the map by bounding-box. For example this URL requests the data around Trafalgar Square:
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=-0.13062,51.5065,-0.12557,51.50969

Data filtered by "tag". For example this URL returns all elements in London tagged shop=supermarket:
http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*[shop=supermarket][bbox=-0.48,51.30,0.21,51.70]

The .osm format

The format of the data is a raw XML represention of all the elements making up the map. OpenStreetMap is composed of interconnected "nodes" and "ways" (and sometimes "relations") each with a set of name=value pairs called "tags". These classify and describe properties of the elements, and ultimately influence how they get drawn on the map. To understand more about tags, and different ways of working with this data format refer to the following pages on the OpenStreetMap wiki.

• .osm - About the raw XML data format of OpenStreetMap
• Downloading data - More details of the API and extract download options
• Xapi - The extended api for filtering by tag
• Map Features - A list of tags, and what map features they represent
• Converting map data between formats - catalogue of tools for converting from .osm to other formats

Simple embedded maps

Rather than working with raw map data, you may prefer to embed maps from OpenStreetMap on your website with a simple bit of javascript. You can also present overlays of other data, in a manner very similar to working with google maps. In fact you can even use the google maps API to do this. See OSM on your own website for details and links to various javascript map libraries.

Help build the map!

The OpenStreetMap project aims to attract large numbers of contributors who all chip in a little bit to help build the map. Although the map editing tools take a little while to learn, they are designed to be as simple as possible, so that everyone can get involved. This project offers an exciting means of allowing local London communities to take ownership of their part of the map.

Read about how to Get Involved and see the London page for details of OpenStreetMap community events.

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map & spatial database of the whole world. This dataset is an extract of OpenStreetMap data for French Polynesia in a GIS-friendly format.

The OSM data has been split into separate layers based on themes (buildings, roads, points of interest, etc), and it comes bundled with a QGIS project and styles, to help you get started with using the data in your maps. This OSM product will be updated weekly.

The goal is to increase awareness among Pacific GIS users of the richness of OpenStreetMap data in Pacific countries, as well as the gaps, so that they can take advantage of this free resource, become interested in contributing to OSM, and perhaps join the global OSM community.

OpenStreetMap data is open data, with a very permissive licence. You can download it and use it for any purpose you like, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. You don't have to pay anyone, or ask anyone's permission. When you download and use the data, you're granted permission to do that under the Open Database Licence (ODbL). The only conditions are that you Attribute, Share-Alike, and Keep open.

The required credit is “© OpenStreetMap contributors”. If you make a map, you should display this credit somewhere. If you provide the data to someone else, you should make sure the license accompanies the data

GEOFABRIK download of OpenStreetMap data of Italy center.

This road network dataset was created from data extracted from OpenStreetMap (OSM) across the geographic area of Australia on 05 August 2020. Its purpose is to represent motor-vehicle traversable public roads within Australia. Note, however, as the original dataset is built by a community of mappers, there is no guarantee of its spatial or attribute accuracy. Use at your own risk. This road network has been topologically corrected for the purposes of network analysis for motor vehicles. For more information about the map features represented in this dataset (including their attributes), refer to the OpenStreetMap Wiki. Please note: The original data for this dataset has been downloaded from Geofabrik on 05 August 2020. AURIN has filtered the original data and omitted features to present the topologically correct, motor-vehicle traversable road network.

Snapshot of OpenStreetMap data from Geofabrik ( https://download.geofabrik.de/ ) for the "spanishoddata: A package for accessing and working with large Spanish".

References

- OpenStreetMap contributors. (2015) Planet dump [Data file from 2025-04-12]. Retrieved from https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/spain/valencia-latest.osm.pbf ( https://download.geofabrik.de/europe/spain/valencia.html ) on 2025-04-13

This web map references the live tiled map service from the OpenStreetMap project. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information such as free satellite imagery, and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap server: http://www.OpenStreetMap.org. See that website for additional information about OpenStreetMap. It is made available as a basemap for GIS work in Esri products under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.Tip: This service is one of the basemaps used in the ArcGIS.com map viewer and ArcGIS Explorer Online. Simply click one of those links to launch the interactive application of your choice, and then choose Open Street Map from the Basemap control to start using this service. You'll also find this service in the Basemap gallery in ArcGIS Explorer Desktop and ArcGIS Desktop 10.

Overview: osm: Military rasterized from OSM landuse polygons, first to 10m spatial resolution and after downsampled to 30m by spatial average.

Traceability (lineage): The class-wise layers of this dataset were extracted from OpenStreetMap data downloaded from geofabrik.de and aggregated based on labels assigned to the volunteered geographical information objects.

Scientific methodology: nan

Usability: The extracted classes can be used to preprocess training data (as detailed in Witjes et al., 2022 (in review, preprint available at https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-561383/v3 ). Users are advised to remember the potential inconsistencies in volunteered geographical information, however: Some regions of Europe have been less consistently mapped in OpenStreetMap. This may introduce bias in any subsequent modelling.

Uncertainty quantification: nan

Data validation approaches: This dataset has not been validated

Completeness: Volunteered geographical information often more complete in regions with more active contributors. It is likely that this dataset contains many omission errors in regions of Europe where OpenStreetMap is used less intensively.

Consistency: Volunteered geographical information often more complete in regions with more active contributors. It is likely that this dataset contains many omission errors in regions of Europe where OpenStreetMap is used less intensively.

Positional accuracy: The rasters have a spatial resolution of 30m

Temporal accuracy: The maps are based on an extract from 2020.

Thematic accuracy: The 30m pixels of each OSM extract map have values ranging from 0-100, indicating the density aggregated from 10m pixels where rasterized objects burned the value 100 in a 0-value raster.

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of December 2024. See blog for more information.This 3D scene layer presents OpenStreetMap (OSM) buildings data hosted by Esri. Esri created buildings and trees scene layers from the OSM Daylight map distribution, which is supported by Facebook and others. The Daylight map distribution has been sunsetted and data updates supporting this layer are no longer available. You can visit openstreetmap.maps.arcgis.com to explore a collection of maps, scenes, and layers featuring OpenStreetMap data in ArcGIS. You can review the 3D Scene Layers Documentation to learn more about how the building and tree features in OSM are modeled and rendered in the 3D scene layers, and see tagging recommendations to get the best results.OpenStreetMap is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project.Note: This layer is supported in Scene Viewer and ArcGIS Pro 3.0 or higher.

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of December 2024. See blog for more information.This web map presents a vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data hosted by Esri. This version of the map is rendered in a style similar to the Esri Street Map (with Relief). It includes the World Hillshade layer. Created from the sunsetted Daylight map distribution, data updates supporting this layer are no longer available.OpenStreetMap is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project. Precise Tile Registration: The web map uses the improved tiling scheme “WGS84 Geographic, Version 2” to ensure proper tile positioning at higher resolutions (neighborhood level and beyond). The new tiling scheme is much more precise than tiling schemes of the legacy basemaps Esri released years ago. We recommend that you start using this new basemap for any new web maps in WGS84 that you plan to author. Due to the number of differences between the old and new tiling schemes, some web clients will not be able to overlay tile layers in the old and new tiling schemes in one web map.

This dataset contains 23 30m resolution raster data of continental Europe land use / land cover classes extracted from OpenStreetMap, as well as administrative areas, and a harmonized building dataset based on OpenStreetMap and Copernicus HRL Imperviousness data.

The land use / land cover classes are:

buildings.commercial

buildings.industrial

buildings.residential

cemetery

construction.site

dump.site (landfill)

farmland

farmyard

forest

grass

greenhouse

harbour

meadow

military

orchard

quarry

railway

reservoir

road

salt

vineyard

The land use / land cover data was generated by extracting OSM vector layers from https://download.geofabrik.de/). These were then transformed into a 30 m density raster for each feature type. This was done by first creating a 10 m raster where each pixel intersecting a vector feature was assigned the value 100. These pixels were then aggregated to 10 m resolution by calculating the average of every 9 adjacent pixels. This resulted in a 0—100 density layer for the three feature types. Although the digitized building data from OSM offers the highest level of detail, its coverage across Europe is inconsistent. To supplement the building density raster in regions where crowd-sourced OSM building data was unavailable, we combined it with Copernicus High Resolution Layers (HRL) (obtained from https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/ high-resolution-layers), filling the non-mapped areas in OSM with the Impervious Built-up 2018 pixel values, which was averaged to 30 m. The probability values produced by the averaged aggregation were integrated in such a way that values between 0—100 refer to OSM (lowest and highest probabilities equal to 0 and 100 respectively), and the values between 101—200 refer to Copernicus HRL (lowest and highest probability equal to 200 and 101 respectively). This resulted in a raster layer where values closer to 100 are more likely to be buildings than values closer to 0 and 200. Structuring the data in this way allows us to select the higher probability building pixels in both products by the single boolean expression: Pixel > 50 AND pixel <150.

This dataset is part of the OpenStreetMap+ was used to pre-process the LUCAS/CORINE land use / land cover samples (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4740691) used to train machine learning models in Witjes et al., 2022 (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-561383/v4)

Each layer can be viewed interactively on the Open Data Science Europe data viewer at maps.opendatascience.eu.

This map references the OpenStreetMap tile layer hosted by Esri. This tile layer presents a new vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data created and hosted by Esri, now in beta release. Esri produced this vector tile basemap in ArcGIS Pro from a live replica of OSM data, hosted by Esri, that was rendered using OSM cartography. The vector tiles are updated every few weeks; refer to the OpenStreetMap tile layer for details on when it was last updated. When fully released, this vector basemap will be freely available for any user or developer to build into their web map or web mapping apps.OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project and is excited to make this new vector basemap available available to the OSM, GIS, and Developer communities.

This web map features a vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data created and hosted by Esri. Esri produced this vector tile basemap in ArcGIS Pro from a live replica of OSM data, hosted by Esri, and rendered using a creative cartographic style emulating a blueprint technical drawing. The vector tiles are updated every few weeks with the latest OSM data. This vector basemap is freely available for any user or developer to build into their web map or web mapping apps.OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project and is excited to make this new vector basemap available available to the OSM, GIS, and Developer communities.

GEOFABRIK download of OpenStreetMap data of Italy's North West

OpenStreetMap data for Berlin.

OpenStreetMap exports for use in GIS applications.

This theme includes all OpenStreetMap features in this area matching:

highway IS NOT NULL

Features may have these attributes:

• highway
• surface
• name
• smoothness
• lanes
• width
• source
• layer
• oneway
• bridge

This dataset is one of many "https://data.humdata.org/organization/hot">OpenStreetMap exports on HDX. See the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team website for more information.

This dataset was extracted from OpenStreetMap (OSM) across the geographic area of Australia on 02 December 2021. Its purpose is to display all building outlines as an area (polygon) within Australia. Note, however, as this dataset is built by a community of mappers, there is no guarantee of its spatial or attribute accuracy. Use at your own risk. For more information about the map features represented in this dataset (including their attributes), refer to the OpenStreetMap Wiki. Please note: The original data for this dataset has been downloaded from Geofabrik on 02 December 2021. Due to changes in tagging, previous versions of OSM may not be comparable with this release.

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of December 2024. See blog for more information.This web map presents a vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data hosted by Esri. It provides a detailed base layer for the world featuring a light neutral style with minimal colors, OpenStreetMap (Esri Light Gray Canvas Base) and also an overlaying reference layer, OpenStreetMap (Esri Light Gray Canvas Reference). Created from the sunsetted Daylight map distribution, data updates supporting this layer are no longer available.OpenStreetMap is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project.

This dataset contains the latest Open Street Map (OSM) objects for Greece, including the following elements: 1) Buildings, 2) Land Use Information, 3) Natural Objects, 4) Places, 5) Places of Faith and Worship, 6) Points of Interest, 7) Railway Networks, 8) Road Networks, 9) Points of Traffic Interest, 10) Mixed Transportation Hubs, 11) Water Bodies, and 12) Waterways.

Information and data were collected from: www.geofabrik.de

Το εν λόγω σύνολο δεδομένων περιλαμβάνει τα νεότερα Open Street Map (OSM) αντικείμενα για την Ελλάδα. Περιλαμβάνει τα ακόλουθα αντικείμενα: 1) Κτίρια, 2) Χρήσεις Γης, 3) Φυσικά Αντικείμενα, 4) Τοποθεσίες, 5) Χώροι Λατρείας, 6) Σημεία Ενδιαφέροντος, 7) Σιδηροδρομικά Δίκτυα, 8) Οδικά Δίκτυα, 9) Σημεία Συγκοινωνιακού Ενδιαφέροντος, 10) Συγκοινωνιακοί Κόμβοι, 11) Υδάτινοι Φορείς και 12) Υδάτινοι Δίαυλοι.

Οι επιμέρους πληροφορίες και δεδομένα συλλέχθηκαν από το: www.geofabrik.de

Important Note: This item is in mature support as of December 2024. See blog for more information.This web map presents a vector basemap of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data hosted by Esri. It provides a reference layer featuring map labels, boundary lines, and roads and includes imagery. Created from the sunsetted Daylight map distribution, data updates supporting this layer are no longer available.OpenStreetMap is an open collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. Volunteers gather location data using GPS, local knowledge, and other free sources of information and upload it. The resulting free map can be viewed and downloaded from the OpenStreetMap site: www.OpenStreetMap.org. Esri is a supporter of the OSM project.

This point of interests dataset was extracted from OpenStreetMap (OSM) across the geographic area of Australia on 05 August 2020. Its purpose is to display points within Australia which people may find of interest, this is not limited to major landmarks and include simple amenities. Note, however, as this dataset is built by a community of mappers, there is no guarantee of its spatial or attribute accuracy. Use at your own risk. For more information about the map features represented in this dataset (including their attributes), refer to the OpenStreetMap Wiki and the Points of Interest. Please note: The original data for this dataset has been downloaded from Geofabrik on 05 August 2020.