OpenStreetMap
How many POIs does OpenStreetMap have?
Posted by PlaneMad on 1 October 2016 in English. Last updated on 11 May 2017.Might depend on what exactly one considers a point of interest, but looking at some common keys:
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/amenity
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/shop
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/historic
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/tourism
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/craft
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/office
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/leisure
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/natural=peak
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/highway=bus_stop
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/railway=station
- http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/aeroway=aerodrome
we get around 20 million features that could be potential landmarks or points of interest.
Just counting points that have names, we get around 12.9 million features.
Addresses
- https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr:housenumber
- https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr:postcode
70 million individual addresses and 49 million postcode locations
Maybe there is a better way of finding out, but here’s a new conversation starter at your next mapping party!
Discussion
Comment from Zverik on 1 October 2016 at 09:32
By counting features in maps.me maps, I found around 11.2 million POIs with names, quite close to your estimate.
Comment from escada on 1 October 2016 at 10:12
And then you forgot to look at the tourism tag (hotel, museum, etc.) :-)
Comment from jonwit on 3 October 2016 at 13:22
That’s a lot of Pokémon go stops
Comment from robbieonsea on 4 October 2016 at 23:48
Some other POIs:
Nearly 7.4 million individual trees
over 0.4 million peaks
Comment from PlaneMad on 4 October 2016 at 23:57
Thank you escada and robbieonsea, updated! Not included tree’s though.