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Overpass API
Query all of OpenStreetMap, on your device
About
Query all of OpenStreetMap for your region with Overpass QL. Every tag of every object, cafes within 500 m, buildings with their year, bus stops along a street. The same API as overpass-api.de, on your own device and without its limits.
Notes
Your own Overpass API: query the full OpenStreetMap data of Germany, the DACH region or Europe with Overpass QL, including every tag, opening hours, Wikipedia links and building details. Everything the public overpass-api.de answers, but on your device, without rate limits imposed by others.
On first start the device downloads the region extract from Geofabrik and builds the Overpass database. Germany takes several hours and about 25 GB, Europe more than a day and well over 100 GB. Afterwards the instance pulls daily diffs from Geofabrik, so the data stays current. The database lives on a persistent volume and survives updates and rebuilds.
Heavy: the import wants 8 GB of RAM and a fast SSD. Open queries on a home connection are easy to overload, so put the instance behind Basic Auth in Hosting unless you know who is asking.
Alternative to: overpass-api.de
Facts
- Version
- 1.0.0
- Source
- Official
- Runtime
- Several containers
- Devices
- Linux
- Min. RAM
- 7.5 GB
- Project
- github.com
Install
How to run Overpass API yourself
- 01
Connect a device
A Raspberry Pi, a Linux machine or a Mac that is on anyway.
- 02
Install it
One click in your Obacht account. Your device checks the signature before anything runs.
- 03
Open it from anywhere
It gets a web address under your-name.obacht.space, with HTTPS. Add your own domain if you have one.
Open-source contribution
Free
We couldn't find a donation channel for Overpass API. As long as there is none, this app costs nothing.
Run it on your own hardware.
Obacht is in a closed pilot phase. Put yourself on the list. We let people in a few at a time, so it can take a while.