# OpenStreetMap

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/openstreetmap/  
**Website:** https://www.openstreetmap.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project to create a free, editable map of the world. The OSM ecosystem exposes a family of public REST APIs: the main editing API (v0.6) for CRUD operations on map data, the Overpass API for complex read-only geospatial queries, and the Nominatim API for forward and reverse geocoding. Map data is licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 and tile imagery under CC BY-SA 2.0.

## Kin Score — 52.9 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 68.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 36.8 |
| Access Clarity | 36.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 75.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 31.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (11)

- **OpenStreetMap Overpass API** — The Overpass API is a read-only database engine for complex geospatial queries against the OSM dataset. Accepts Overpass QL or XML queries and returns results in XML, JSON, GeoJ...
- **OpenStreetMap Capabilities API** — API version and limits
- **OpenStreetMap Changesets API** — Changeset management for grouped edits
- **OpenStreetMap Map Data API** — Bulk map data retrieval by bounding box
- **OpenStreetMap Nodes API** — OSM node (point) operations
- **OpenStreetMap Notes API** — Community map notes
- **OpenStreetMap Relations API** — OSM relation operations
- **OpenStreetMap Users API** — User account information
- **OpenStreetMap Ways API** — OSM way (line/polygon) operations
- **OpenStreetMap Geocoding API** — Forward geocoding, reverse geocoding, and OSM object lookup
- **OpenStreetMap Status API** — Server status and version information

## Agentic access (1)

- **Openstreetmap Agentic Access** — 18 operations · 8 acting

## Security (3)

- **Openstreetmap Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Openstreetmap Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Openstreetmap Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Openstreetmap Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Geospatial, Mapping, Open Data, Geocoding, Editing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/openstreetmap/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.