uMap

uMap
Author:	yohanboniface GitHub
License:	GNU AGPL v3 (free of charge)
Platform:	Web
Status:	Active
Version:	2.5.1 releases (2024-07-12)
Language:	multiple languages
Website:	https://umap-project.org
Source code:	umap-project/umap GitHub
Programming languages:	Python and JavaScript
Create your own map, add marker and much more
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data raster Source Rotate map 3D view Shows website Shows phone number Shows operation hours Routing (Not set) Navigating Navigate Find location yes Find nearby POIs Navigate to point Navigation with voice / Voice guidance Keep on road Lane guidance Works without GPS Navigate along predefined route Tracking Make track Customizable log interval Track formats Geotagging Fast POI buttons Upload GPX to OSM yes Monitoring Monitoring Show current track yes Open existing track Altitude diagram Show POD value Satellite view Show live NMEA data Show speed Send current position Editing (Not set) Rendering (Not set) Accessibility (Not set)

uMap lets you create maps with OpenStreetMap layers and embed it in your site. All within a few minutes. You can create custom maps (see the examples at the instances' front pages). It is powered by open source, AGPLv3-licensed software.

Instances

• Production instances
  • umap.openstreetmap.fr (multilingual), currently: català, čeština, dansk, Deutsch, English, español, euskara, français, italiano, lietuvių, suomi, português, Nederlands, русский, українська, 日本語, slovenčina, Tiếng Việt, 中文, 中文（繁體）, 한국어 – Free usage without charge open to anyone. Warning, the service is very busy but does not offer any commercial support; it is not warrantied to work permanently and may temporarily be unavailable : report any incident or unavailable times to the technical support below or on umap/framacarte dedicated category on OSM-FR forum.
  • framacarte.org
  • umap.osm.ch (multilingual, Switzerland)
  • umap.geonue.com
  • https://umap.openstreetmap.co (Spanish / Español) - Free usage without charge open to anyone. Maintained by the OpenStreetMap Colombia foundation. (2022-10-27 Actualmente fuera de línea).
  • umap.openstreetmap.de (German and other languages)
  • umap.hotosm.org (Multilingual)
• Demonstration instances
  • https://dev.umap-project.org/

Tutorials/Help

On Wiki

• UMap/Guide
• UMap/FAQ
• UMap/Tips

Outside Wiki

French

https://docs.framasoft.org/fr/umap/

FR:UMap#Articles_tutoriels_et_billets_de_blogues

English

1. Create an always up to date map with Overpass (en)
2. blog post about new features in uMap (2014-08-25) (en)
3. Using overpass queries in uMap (2020-11-23) (en)

Italian

1. Creare una mappa online con fotografie in uMap aggiornabile con EtherCalc (it)
2. come creare una mappa web in stile Open – Video tutorial (it)
3. come caricare un layer da remoto su uMap con overpass-api – Video tutorial (it)

Screencasts

• Change popup template (fr)
• Split/merge polylines
• Use the iframe exporter
• Change clusters text color
• Use table editor
• Set marker lat/lng by hand
• Create a hole in a polygon
• Continue a line
• Activate slideshow mode
• Delete layer
• Delete marker with right-click

Showcase

Some of the more expressive maps made with uMap:

• Syrian conflict map
• Ebola tracking
• Famous tombs in Père-Lachaise, Paris (with Overpass dynamic request)
• Old photos of Thessaloniki map (iframed here)
• A heatmap of the trees in Bordeaux
• Using a dynamic GeoRSS feed from Flickr (read also GeoRSS support added on uMap)
• The maps of the uMaps (note: the collected data is outdated, some maps are incorrectly referenced and are not those effectively published on websites, and there are many more)
• Simple elections results in Paris
• Paris en autochromes (with iframe embedded in the popups)
• Vegan restaurants in Bern (iframed here)
• Interesting places in Samara (Russia) with pop-up windows
• CityParkingWeb.com

Pseudo-maps using custom locations, not real geolocations on Earth:

• Simpson's City Map (game)
• Composition of elected members at the Île-de-France regional assemblee in Paris (people and their political groups on a chart)

Development

Built using Django (Python) and Leaflet (JavaScript). It also uses the modules django-leaflet-storage and Leaflet.Storage.

• Project repository: https://github.com/umap-project/umap
• Front-end repository (Leaflet plugin): https://github.com/umap-project/Leaflet.Storage
• Back-end repository (Django app): https://github.com/umap-project/django-leaflet-storage

Translations are available on Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/umap/

Developers news and release notes

• (en) 2020-02-25: How to become an uMap contributor? by Binnette (talk)

Feedback and help

• See above for beginner's guides
• Mailing list: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/umap (including lost of the edit url for umap @ osm-fr)
• Issues tracker (you can reach the developers there): https://github.com/umap-project/umap/issues
• IRC channel (real-time chat): #umap on Freenode
• Gitter channel: https://gitter.im/umap-project/umap
• Help forum (only for minor usage problems): https://help.openstreetmap.org/tags/umap/
• French help forum: https://forum.openstreetmap.fr/c/utiliser/umap/29
• Spanish help (Umap Colombia installation): https://t.me/OSMLatam / https://openstreetmap.co
• for private/sensitive stuff related to the osm-fr instance or to the code : admin@listes.openstreetmap.fr

See also

• geojson.io offers drawing geometries, displaying markers according to coordinate tables, overlay GPX or KML data, and finally share your map even privately.
• https://mapifator.com/ by Geoapify. Custom maps for embedding on your website. Commercial with free tier.
• http://maps.inkata.com was a similar web service (now broken?)
• A Russian interview with the founder of the public movement "Anti-borschevik" (anti-hogweed) about how they use uMap.