openstreetmap.org
OpenStreetMap
Who runs OpenStreetMap, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open map data alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Wikimapia
Measured from OpenStreetMap’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit OpenStreetMap01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org
OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
Wikidata: online collaborative project creating a world geographic database
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What OpenStreetMap tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 17 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to OpenStreetMap
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to OpenStreetMap, thumbs down if it isn’t.
20 of the 60 sites closest to OpenStreetMap match.
- 01
Wikidata
free multilingual online knowledge graph
Very close - 02
World Records - RecordSetter: The Home of World Records
Invent world records, beat world records, discuss world records and more. RecordSetter is built on a philosophy that everyone on earth can be the world's best at something. Set a record today!
Very close - 03
Datawrapper: Create charts, maps, and tables
Create interactive, responsive & beautiful data visualizations with the online tool Datawrapper — no code required.
Very close - 04
Wikibooks
free multilingual online collection of textbooks
Very close - 05
Hornet | Hornet, the Queer Social Network
Meet, chat and connect with 100 million+ queer men worldwide
Close - 06
AniList: Track, Discover, Share Anime & Manga
Track, discover, and share anime and manga with AniList. Discover top-rated and popular shows through reviews and recommendations. Sign up for free!
Close - 07
Nullschool Technologies Inc.
Very close - 09
ListenBrainz
Track, explore, visualise and share the music you listen to. Follow your favourites and discover great new music.
Close - 10
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
Close - 11
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 12
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 13
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Close - 14
An analytical SQL database management system – DuckDB
DuckDB is a SQL OLAP database management system. Simple, feature-rich, fast & open source.
Very close - 15
Komoot | Find, plan and share your adventures
Turn your next ride, hike, or run into an adventure with komoot. Get inspired by tapping into shared community knowledge and recommendations, then bring your adventures to life with the easy route planner.
Very close - 17
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Close - 18
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 19
Tinder | Dating, Make Friends & Meet New People
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world’s most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Very close - 20
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles OpenStreetMap’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones OpenStreetMap uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what OpenStreetMap adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,214
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 34 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to OpenStreetMap’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Matomo page source: matomo.php
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080022-BER
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache
- Languages & backends
- Ruby on Rails page source: <meta name="csrf-param" content="authenticity_token"
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS daisy.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=W0buKB5ZmL-VwwHw2oQyQImk3I1q3hSemf2qm…
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=j5hix5i8r0kortfugqf2p9wx9x9by0
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on openstreetmap.org 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on openstreetmap.org 12/20
- Apple Business · not on openstreetmap.org 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on openstreetmap.org 7/20
- Mailchimp · not on openstreetmap.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 6/20
- Meta Business Suite 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on openstreetmap.org 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on openstreetmap.org 4/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on openstreetmap.org 4/20
- Zendesk · not on openstreetmap.org 4/20
- Atlassian · not on openstreetmap.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on openstreetmap.org 4/20
- Google Analytics · not on openstreetmap.org 4/20
- DocuSign · not on openstreetmap.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on openstreetmap.org 3/20