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How many POIs does OpenStreetMap have?

Posted by PlaneMad on 1 October 2016 in English. Last updated on 11 May 2017.

Might depend on what exactly one considers a point of interest, but looking at some common keys:

we get around 20 million features that could be potential landmarks or points of interest.

Just counting points that have names, we get around 12.9 million features.

Addresses

70 million individual addresses and 49 million postcode locations

Maybe there is a better way of finding out, but here’s a new conversation starter at your next mapping party!

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په 1 October 2016 په 09:32 باندې د Zverik تبصره

By counting features in maps.me maps, I found around 11.2 million POIs with names, quite close to your estimate.

په 1 October 2016 په 10:12 باندې د escada تبصره

And then you forgot to look at the tourism tag (hotel, museum, etc.) :-)

په 3 October 2016 په 13:22 باندې د jonwit تبصره

That’s a lot of Pokémon go stops

په 4 October 2016 په 23:48 باندې د robbieonsea تبصره

Some other POIs:

Nearly 7.4 million individual trees

0.5 million historic=memorial/monument/wayside_cross shrine

over 0.4 million peaks

په 4 October 2016 په 23:57 باندې د PlaneMad تبصره

Thank you escada and robbieonsea, updated! Not included tree’s though.

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