Alternatives to OpenStreetMap
A collaboratively edited world map you can browse, search, route on and edit in a browser. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
OpenStreetMap
A collaboratively edited world map you can browse, search, route on and edit in a browser.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as OpenStreetMap.
Google Maps
Google's map and navigation service with live traffic, transit directions and Street View.
Google Maps adds live traffic, transit directions, Street View and mobile apps, but its data is proprietary and cannot be edited under an open license.
Apple Maps
Apple's map and navigation service with directions, traffic, guides and place search.
Apple Maps is built into iPhone and Mac with CarPlay integration and a web version, but its map data is closed and not user-editable.
Bing Maps
Microsoft's web map with driving, transit and walking directions, live traffic and aerial imagery.
Bing Maps is Microsoft's browser map with transit directions, live traffic and aerial and 3D imagery, but its data is proprietary.
HERE WeGo
A free map and navigation service from HERE with turn-by-turn driving directions.
HERE WeGo adds mobile apps with offline country maps and turn-by-turn driving without an account, but its map data is not openly licensed.
MapQuest
A long-running web and mobile map service for driving directions, trip planning and traffic.
MapQuest offers multi-stop trip planning and live traffic on web and mobile, focused on the United States and Canada, with advertising throughout.
Mapy.com
Map service with world search, hiking and cycling trails, city maps and route planning.
Mapy.com adds marked hiking and cycling trails and mobile apps for outdoor route planning, strongest in Europe, with some features paid and closed source.
Also worth comparing
These listings name OpenStreetMap as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
GNOME Maps
A map application for the GNOME desktop that searches places and plans routes using OpenStreetMap data.
OpenStreetMap's website runs in any browser with built-in routing on the same open data, but it has no offline use.
Headway
A self-hostable maps stack with search and routing, powered by OpenStreetMap data.
OpenStreetMap offers search and routing with several engines in the browser on the same open data, but it is not self-hosted and has no offline use.
Marble
A KDE virtual globe and world atlas that zooms from a desktop globe to OpenStreetMap street level.
OpenStreetMap is an open world map in the browser with search, routing and editing, but it has no globe view and no offline use.
OpenTopoMap
A free topographic web map rendered from OpenStreetMap and elevation data.
OpenStreetMap shows the standard open map rather than a topographic style, but adds search, built-in routing and the ability to edit map data in the browser.
Yandex Maps
A web map for finding places and planning routes by public transport, car or on foot.
OpenStreetMap is an open-licence web map with built-in routing that anyone can edit, with coverage and detail varying by region.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
OsmAnd
An open-source offline map and navigation app based on OpenStreetMap, for driving, cycling and hiking.
CoMaps
A community-led fork of Organic Maps offering offline OpenStreetMap navigation with a focus on privacy.
OpenHistoricalMap
A collaborative interactive map of the world through history, edited by volunteers and public domain.
Nominatim
An open-source geocoder that finds places by name or address and addresses by coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
OpenMapTiles
An open-source schema, map styles and tools for generating OpenStreetMap vector tiles to self-host.
iD
Easy-to-use in-browser editor for contributing changes to OpenStreetMap.
