help tagname search

Introduction

BBBike tagname search offers fulltext search in more than 175 mio name, notes, description, comment, fixme, subject, title, wikipedia and URL tags in OpenStreetMap by words, sub-strings, phrases, regular expressions, or best match.

Examples

substring search

• substring search: mannn | karla marx | Grüner Balken | Halbstamm
• lowercase, case sensitive: rosenthal
• substring search seume in region Germany only
• URL search www.s-bahn-berlin.de in region Germany/Brandenburg only
• boolean substring search notaufnahme OR rettungsstelle in region Berlin only
• substring search rettungsstelle of type way in region Brandenburg only

prefix or exact search

• prefix search: aaaa
• exact wordsearch: babi | Q40904 | karla marxa

Best match

• with one typo: slavenburg

Regular Expressions

• regular expression, by word, case insensitive: bab[^i]ak
• search for karl-marx-<word>, but not for karl-marx-straße or karl-marx-platz: karl-marx-[^sp]
• search for apotheke which starts with a z in name in Brandenburg: ^z.*apotheke

Special Characters, non words

• four exclamation marks: !!!!
• single quotes followed by text: 'fo

Counting only

• counter: Mesto | Bahnhof
• counter for lowercase word: temple

plocate is usually 100 times faster than any grep, ripgrep is 1.5-3 times faster than agrep or GNU grep. plocate support case insenstive search and counting, but not whole words or regular expressions. Only agrep supports best match with NN errors.

Misc

• this is a fulltext search for names. It is not an address search or GIS application
• other OSM search engines EN:Geocoding, DE:Suchmaschinen
• an OpenSearch plugin for Firefox is available for World, Germany and Brandenburg, see also OpenSearch protocol
• presentation at FOSSGIS 2023 in Berlin, slides (German or English), video

Machine room

• extract tags from planet.osm: osmium tags-filter -f opl -R planet-latest.osm.pbf '/*comment*' '/*inscription*' '/*description*' '/*name*' '/*note*' '/*fixme*' '/*title*' '/subject*' '/wikipedia' '/wikidata' '/wikimedia_commons' | grep pattern
• manual pages for search backend: agrep, ripgrep, GNU grep, plocate
• database will be updated daily at 02:00 UTC from planet.osm
• the service is running with Gods' language

Downloading data

• World, by planet.osm.org
• World Full History, by planet.osm.org

Terms of Service / Usage Policy

For private use only. Please: max. one request per seconds. Feel free to contact me if you need commercial support.