--- title: OpenStreetMap Reviews meta\_title: 'OpenStreetMap Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 19 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how OpenStreetMap works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 3.9 review\_count: 19 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: CAD & PLM url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cad-plm --- # OpenStreetMap Reviews & Product Details OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a collaborative project that creates a free, editable map of the world, maintained by a community of volunteers. Established in 2004, OSM allows users to contribute and update data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and more, utilizing tools like aerial imagery and GPS devices. Key Features and Functionality: - Editable Map Data: Users can add and modify map information, ensuring up-to-date and accurate representations of geographic areas. - Diverse Data Inclusion: OSM encompasses a wide range of data, including roads, buildings, addresses, points of interest, and natural features. - Community-Driven Contributions: With nearly 5 million registered users and over 1 million active contributors worldwide, OSM thrives on local knowledge and collective effort. - Open Data License: All map data is freely available under the Open Database License, allowing unrestricted use and distribution with proper attribution. Primary Value and User Solutions: OpenStreetMap provides an open-source alternative to proprietary mapping services, offering free access to comprehensive and customizable geographic data. It empowers individuals, organizations, and developers to create tailored maps, support navigation applications, and conduct geospatial analyses without licensing fees. OSM's emphasis on local knowledge ensures detailed and accurate mapping, particularly in areas underserved by commercial mapping services. Additionally, its open data model fosters innovation and collaboration across various sectors, including humanitarian aid, urban planning, and transportation. * * * Seller [OpenStreetMap](https://www.g2.com/sellers/openstreetmap-7053a736-8e46-4479-abab-2ed822c8ac91) Discussions [OpenStreetMap Community](https://www.g2.com/products/openstreetmap/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Esri ArcGIS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Esri ArcGIS") Esri ArcGIS 4.5/5(540) ](https://www.g2.com/products/esri-arcgis/reviews) [ ![Mapbox](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mapbox") Mapbox 4.3/5(41) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mapbox/reviews) [ ![Azure Maps](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Azure Maps") Azure Maps 4.1/5(12) ](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-maps/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/openstreetmap/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 19 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) UB Usha B. Manager Leisure, Travel & Tourism Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/24/2025 "Easy to Integrate and Free Mapping tool." 5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? OpenStreetMap is incredible and opensouce, it is flexible and can be use offline too. Easy to integrate with any projects and portal. It is an powerful mapping tool and its free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? Its based on community updates which may result in some less data to be displayed. But its easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? I can see the Inventory price and locality which help us to get perfect hotel booking for my customer /client with the map feature which is integrated within the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/28/2025 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery") UP Verified User in Package/Freight Delivery Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/13/2023 "Map for your calculations" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? It helps on calculation, it's very easy to use and it gives suites routes between 2 points. The site is very fast so you don't have to wait until it's loaded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? Unfortunately, it refreshes very rare (2 times a months) and that's why you can't see closed roads for example. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? Calculations of distance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic Review from User Profile ![Mahmoud o.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mahmoud o.") MO Mahmoud o. Mechanical Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/22/2021 "Realistic Map" 3.5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? I like that is not like typical map application, it is kind of unique since it has map features that not always given in any map application. In addition to have a simplified Mapkey that shows all the needed information to understand the map Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? Not the easiest map application I used, maybe because it is unique on its own. Also, it is not the best application when it comes to navigating " data accuracy " Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? Searching for any location I need, showing the directions to reach for a certain distinction. Also, since it is giving extra information that not normally given in other applications, I take some of my time to search and have a look on the nearby places and it amazed me to know what I am missing through navigating the map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Computer Software](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Computer Software") UC Verified User in Computer Software Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 2/10/2019 "Free wiki world map everyone can join to digitize the world" 5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? It is free. It is based on community input and I think this map is the most accurate as of today. There is no need to go through approval process with your edits. This is important as your work is immediately accepted and visible. Comparing to other similar products your changes might not be approved and that's not very encouraging. It has a web interface to edit the map. Anybody can use the map free of charge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? I guess it is a bit hard to start with editing the map. The tools and symbols are not all intuitive and you need to follow a guide before starting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenStreetMap: I encourage everyone to join and help this world be a better place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? Having an accurate map is important when looking for an address for example. Some other services might not have most recent details, whereas Open Street Map has more accurate details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/17/2019 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SJ samantha j. Php developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 3/20/2019 "A good and efficient location finder software" 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? It is an excellent an efficient software that j=helps you in finding the location with the help of GPS and take you to that place. Plus it is free of cost which is a bonus. Give you better and accurate information that google maps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? It is good software with good tools and features so no disliking about it yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenStreetMap: It is a great tool with easy and understanding features that helps you get to your destination. I have been using it in a lot of my jobs and it is very much useful and quick. Thus it is fast and user-friendly. Plus it is free of cost which allows you to use it broadly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? It is an effective software that helps you detect the location and gives you accurate information about every thing. Helps you to navigate better and give multiple routes. I have used it for my personal and professional usage and it has been a life saver for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Undrea M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Undrea M.") UM Undrea M. Blogger and Contributor/Sales/Relationship Coordinator Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/20/2019 "A fun, realistic, interactive map--not your typical google streetview" 2.5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? I like that it is not the google maps, or map quest, or whatever other maps out there. It has its own entity and serves a great purpose. The other day, I was on google maps and trying to see the update to the Fulton Market District streetscape project, but I was getting images of 2018 pre-work. On OpenStreetMap, you're going to get the current on projects as such. It really saves the day where google map slacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? I still use google maps, because it gives me my directions and time travels within a mobile app quite simply, by all comparisons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? This has been perfect when it comes to my writing projects. Whether when I was writing a piece on a neighborhood project, and looking to include pictures, or if I am personally writing a historic fiction piece, and I need to look into an area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite MW Matthew W. Administrator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/19/2019 "A great, free alternative to Google Maps." 4.5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? Well, for one, it's free! It's also great how these maps provide so much more information than Google Maps, etc. Lots of companies use it, like Facebook, Craigslist, OsmAnd, Geocaching, MapQuest Open, JMP statistical software, and Foursquare . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? Personally, I think the maps are a bit ugly. Also, relying on users to keep the info up to date has obvious drawbacks. It also doesn't have the name recognition of other sites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenStreetMap: I'd give it a shot, it's hard to complain about free! What's there to lose? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? We needed to have better map and location date. OpenStreetMap provides us with this for free. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Daniel B.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Daniel B.") DB Daniel B. Food and Beverage Server Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/20/2019 "I would use it " 5/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? What I like about OSM is the fact that it allows its users to make maps focused on hikers, cyclists, physically challenged, sailors and technically any interest group. You can map crops, the number of doors or windows on any big building or even the age of a tree. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? It's very similar to Google Maps. Whatever I can solve with OSM I can also solve with Google maps. None of them is necessarily better than the other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? OSM is available and ready for any styling I need to apply for my project, even if it were a sci-fi visualisation. OSM is a map that anyone can edit. If a market was missing on the map, it could be added by me or any other customer and that's how we benefit ourselves by correcting it and making it real. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite ![Alex M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Alex M.") AM Alex M. Graduate Student Researcher Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/30/2019 "Useful for coordinating, when Google Maps is undesirable" 3/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? OSM is fairly complete, we haven't had issues with important things missing; and by nature, when something critical is, we can add it in. When certain people we're collaborating with don't like associating with Google (they're the "Big bad" tech company), OSM is a nice alternative with less data collection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? Just by virtue of being less well known, there's somewhat less code snippets ready online for working with the data. Getting support takes slightly more digging online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering OpenStreetMap: Take a representative sample of locations you would need to reference to make sure that they're present, before diving in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? Coordinating routes for team members that need to visit certain locations together, layering other application-specific data on top of the map. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/28/2019 "Basemap for Map of the World" 4/5 What do you like best about OpenStreetMap? I like simplicity and design of it. Being zoomed out is nice because it is not overcrowded with labels and just starts off with the country names, after zooming into a country you get more details such as states/provinces/regions as well as major cities. Zooming in more you receive details about highways and roads and how they are connecting areas to each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about OpenStreetMap? There is nothing much to dislike, maybe have more variety in color but that's not a true issue. It might be helpful to have a legend or just some information about some of the lines that appear, such as the red, yellow and black lines. When you zoom in you can tell that the red lines represent major highways but the other two are kind of a guessing game and also there are blue lines outlining each country as well and it would be nice to know what they are. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is OpenStreetMap solving and how is that benefiting you? We use OpenStreetMap as one of our basemaps in Map Of the World where we host it and it is beneficial to our users to be able to access and view this for their mapping needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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