Overpass API allows to query for OSM data by your own search criteria. For this purpose, it has a specifically crafted query language.

In addition to regular Overpass API queries one can use the following handy shortcuts in overpass turbo:

• {{bbox}} — bounding box coordinates of the current map view
• {{center}} — map center coordinates
• {{date:…}} — ISO 8601 date-time-string a certain time interval ago (e.g. “24 hours”)
• {{style:…}} — defines a MapCSS stylesheet
• Arbitrary shortcuts can be defined by putting {{shortcut=value}} somewhere in the script.

More overpass-turbo shortcuts, additional information about the above and usage examples can be found in the OSM wiki.

Sharing

It is possible to send a permalink with the query you are currently working on to someone else. This is found in the Share tool and shows you a link which you can send to a friend or post online. (Note that others will work on their own copy of the query.)

Save and Load

You can also save and load your queries. For a start, there are a few example queries preloaded. Take a look at them for a short glimpse of what overpass can do.

Keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl+Enter — Run the current query.
• Ctrl+I — Start the query wizard.
• Ctrl+O / Ctrl+S — Load (open) / Save a query.
• Ctrl+H — Open this help dialog.

Ways are shown as bold blue lines, Polygons as yellow areas with a thin blue outline, POIs (nodes with tags) as yellow circles with a thin blue outline. Circles with a red filling stand for polygons or ways that are too small to be displayed normally. Pink lines or outlines mean, that an object is part of at least one (loaded) relation. Dashed lines mean that a way or polygon has incomplete geometry (most likely because some of its nodes have not been loaded).

The Export tool holds a variety of options to do with the query and/or data loaded by the query.
Options with this symbol: rely on or refer to external (online) tools.

Map

Convert the current map-with-data view to a static png image, or a (fullscreen) interactive map, etc.

Query / Data

This holds some things you can do with the raw query or data, like converting the query between the various query languages or exporting the data as geoJSON. A very useful option is the possibility to send the query to JOSM.

overpass turbo is maintained by Martin Raifer (tyr.asd at gmail.com).

You can reach me on Mastodon.

Feedback, Bug Reports, Feature Requests

If you would like to give feedback, report issues or ask for a particular feature, please use the issue tracker on github or the discussion page on the OSM-wiki.

Source Code

The source code of this application is released under the MIT license.

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Data Sources

• Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL (Terms)
• Data mining by Overpass API
• Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors
• Search provided by Nominatim

Software & Libraries

• Map powered by Leaflet
• Editor powered by CodeMirror
• Other libraries: @fortawesome/fontawesome-free 5.15.4 ((CC-BY-4.0 AND OFL-1.1 AND MIT)), @openstreetmap/id-tagging-schema 3.5.1 (ISC), bulma 0.9.4 (MIT), canvg 4.0.3 (MIT), codemirror 2.38.00 (undefined), colorbrewer 1.5.7 ([object Object]), colormap 2.3.2 (MIT), html2canvas 1.4.1 (MIT), jquery 3.7.1 (MIT), jquery-ui 1.13.2 (MIT), jquery-ui-dist 1.13.2 (MIT), leaflet 1.9.4 (BSD-2-Clause), leaflet-polylineoffset 1.1.1 (MIT), leaflet-locationfilter 0.1.3 (MIT), lodash 4.17.21 (MIT), osm-auth 3.0.0 (ISC), osmtogeojson 3.0.0-beta.5 (MIT), rgbcolor 1.0.1 (MIT OR SEE LICENSE IN FEEL-FREE.md), stackblur 1.0.0 (BSD-2-Clause), tag2link 2024.05.21 (ISC), togpx 0.5.4 (MIT), tokml 0.4.0 (BSD-2-Clause)