switch2osm

Make the switch to OpenStreetMap

Rich data

OpenStreetMap data is rich and detailed, containing huge amounts of data which is relevant to people on the ground - the people who collected it.

Features include:

Roads, railways, waterways, etc...
Restaurants, shops, stations, ATMs and more.
Walking and cycling paths.
Buildings, campuses, etc...

Up to date

OpenStreetMap is updated every minute of every hour of every day, and these updates are available to you in real-time.

Our fantastic community is making OpenStreetMap better right now. If there are features you need - you can add them and see them live within minutes.

Tune your experience

Why does your map have to look the same as every other one on the internet?

With OpenStreetMap data you can create your own map, showing the features that you want to show, the features which are important to your users.

Global data

OpenStreetMap data covers the whole world, making it easy to support users in any country, or every country.

With localised and translated names, you can see maps in the language you want to see them in.

No licensing fee

OpenStreetMap data is free and open - there is no subscription fee and no page-view fee.

With OpenStreetMap data, your only obligations are to attribute and share-alike, as explained in our license.

Using an all-in-one solution

Tile Drawer

Tile Drawer is a free, quick-start, out-of-the-box renderer and server using the standard OSM toolchain for Amazon EC2, other virtual servers, and fresh installs of Ubuntu on any hardware. Choose a geographic area, select a map style, and Tile Drawer will upgrade your stock operating system to an working, running tile server.

(Amazon EC2 is fairly often used for tile hosting but has some caveats: see explanation.)

TileMill and MapBox

TileMill is a pre-built application containing the Mapnik rendering engine, a code editor, and a data inspector. It is available for Linux and Mac OS X. It is built by Development Seed who also offer MapBox, a paid-for hosting service for tiles created with the application.

Third-party providers

Several OpenStreetMap service providers will be happy to work with you to host the map tiles with the stylesheet you have designed. See the provider listing.