8 cool Open Street Map tools

Scale-up your OSM usage !

Benoit Lamouche
3 min readMay 11, 2024

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project that creates a free editable map of the world, built by volunteers largely from scratch and released with an open-content license.

OSM Show me the way

https://osmlab.github.io/show-me-the-way/

Live edits of OSM

uMap

https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/

Free and open source website, to create custom sharable maps.

City Roads

https://anvaka.github.io/city-roads/

This website generates a graphical rendering of all the roads for a given place. Super tool if you want to make custom gifts.

Figuregrounder

https://hanshack.com/figuregrounder/

This website makes posters of any place in the world.

ÖPNVKarte

https://öpnvkarte.de/

Public transportation… everywhere.

Brouter

http://brouter.de/

Probably one of the best tools to plan a ride. It highlights all the best cycle options for a dedicated route. It provides tons of options.

Cyclosm

https://www.cyclosm.org/

A website to visalize all the cycle-related datas from OSM. Very cool if you are looking for nice places to ride your bicycle.

OSM Buildings

https://osmbuildings.org/

This website uses the OSM data to generate and render the volume of the buildings. Accuracy depends on available datas from OSM, but it gives a good relative representation of the building size.

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