OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project that provides free and open geographic data of the world. It is an ever-growing community of mappers who contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafes, railway stations, and much more, all over the world. The data is easily accessible and can be used for any purpose. It is supported by a non-profit organization and is open to anyone who wishes to contribute or use the data. OpenStreetMap has been used in various applications such as disaster management, route planning, and crowd-sourced mapping applications. It is most useful for those who need accurate and up-to-date maps of the world.

In total OSM contains more than 4 billion nodes that form the basis of the digitally mapped world that OSM provides ( stats from November 2017. Boeing, G. 2017. Great! Nice! Cool! Pretty neat!automating-gis-processes.github.ioOSM has a large userbase with more than 4 million users that contribute actively on OSM by updating the OSM database with 3 million changesets per day.

For example, you might have a node with latitude 51.398, longitude -1.082, and tags amenity=place_of_worship, name=St Mary's Church.help.openstreetmap.orgOpenStreetMap has millions of points of interest which will serve you well for this. These are "nodes" (points) each tagged with a set of keywords that indicate what each point is.

Around the sprint table at the MapBox office in Washington DC The fact that the geography around us is constantly changing is why we are using OpenStreetMap to power our key maps.blog.mapbox.comNot only does OpenStreetMap have amazing data today — every day the data improves as the its network of contributors grows.