OSM Inspector
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OSM Inspector OSMI | |
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 A part of Karlsruhe, Germany in the Addresses view of the OSM Inspector | |
| Author: | Geofabrik |
| Slippy map: | tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/ |
| Source code: | geofabrik/osmi_simple_views GitHub;geofabrik/osmi_pubtrans3 GitHub |
The OSM Inspector (alias OSMI) is a web based debugging tool for advanced OpenStreetMap users offered by Geofabrik. On a map you can see several themed views, each with several layers, showing specific details of the OSM data, often with highlighted errors. Layers can be switched on and off, details about any feature is available on mouse click and links lead to your favourite editor so that you can fix problems easily.
Views
Currently the following views are available, click in the Name-link to see specific OSMI documentation:
| Applicable area | Name | Description |
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| World | Geometry | Shows basic geometry problems such as overlong ways |
| World | Routing | Shows probable errors related to routing and navigation |
| World | Tagging | Shows basic problems with tag keys and values |
| World | Places | Shows places such as cities and towns |
| World | Highways | Shows problems with highway tags |
| World | Areas | Shows problems with areas (closed ways, multipolygon relations and boundary relations), e.g. missing or inappropriate role, unclosed ways as multipolygon members, self-intersecting areas |
| World | Coastline | Shows problems in coastlines |
| World | Addresses | Shows addresses including house numbers, postal code areas etc. mapped according to the Karlsruhe Schema |
| World | Water | Shows coastlines, rivers, lakes, and many other features related to water |
| World | Public Transport - Stops | Shows all kinds of public transport stops including stop position, accesses (such as platforms) and stop areas |
| World | Public Transport - Routes | Shows public transport routes (schema version 2 only) |
Discontinued Views
Following views existed in history but are not offered any more:
| Applicable area | Name | Description |
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| World | Multipolygons | Shows problems with multipolygons e.g. missing or inappropriate role, unclosed ways as multipolygon members |
| Austria | plan.at | Shows where work needs to be done following the plan.at data import |
| Germany | Kreisgrenzen | Shows administrative boundaries and a proposed boundary import in Germany (view is in German) |
| Germany | Straßen NRW | Shows roads in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany for import |
| Netherlands | Netherlands (AND) | Shows ways in the Netherlands and whether they have been changed since the AND import |
| World | License Change View | Shows a (relatively) current snapshot of Contributor Terms acceptance for all currently visible objects in the OSM database |
| Europe | Boundaries | Shows administrative boundaries (i.e. between countries, districts, etc.) |
| World | Public Transport - Railway Infrastructure | Showed the different types of rail infrastructure |
| World | Public Transport - Non-rail Infrastructure | Showed the different types of non-rail infrastructure such aerialways, taxi stands or bus guideways |
| World | Public Transport - Ferries | Showed ferry lines and terminals |
| Europe | Public Transport - Network | Showed public transport network lines and has been replaced by Public Transport - Routes |
What is Open about OSM Inspector and what isn't
The data sets which OSM Inspector is based on have been generated as a side product by custom, Geofabrik-internal data processing in the past. With the release of the new Public Transport views in October 2017, the whole processing of all views is solely based on open source tools (only some scripts running as cronjobs are closed source).
The results, however, can not only be viewed in OSM Inspector, but they can also be downloaded in raw form through WMS and WFS interfaces. (See OSM Inspector/WxS for details.) On request, most layers can also be made available as shape files (you can use WFS download to produce a shape file but that is painfully slow for large areas.)
Reporting problems
- https://github.com/geofabrik/osmi_simple_views/issues
- https://github.com/geofabrik/osmi_routing - "routing" layer