Bot
A bot (derived from the word "robot") is an tool that carries out repetitive and mundane automated edits on a regular basis to help maintain OpenStreetMap.
Bots are able to make edits very rapidly and can disrupt OpenStreetMap if they are incorrectly designed or operated.
The automated edits code of conduct should always be followed when creating, operating or modifying a bot.
List of mapping bots
Note that this list is far from complete. Please create an entry in the list if you operate a bot or come across one not documented here.
| Bot name | Description | Active / Last used | OSM data submitting account |
Owner / operator contact |
Language(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kmpoppe (@ Mapillary Update) | Updating Mapillary image IDs | Aug 2022 | kmpoppe (@ Mapillary Update) (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Kmpoppe (kmpoppe on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| merylstreet_semibot | Adding recycling points from Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur Open Data API | Aug 2022 | merylstreet_semibot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | merylstreet | French, English |
| TTmechanicalupdates | Bot run by the TomTom team to perform various automated edits | May 2022 | TTmechanicalupdates (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | TTmechanicalupdates@groups.tomtom.com | English |
| cquest_bot | Update opendata sources like INSEE population on France admin relations | Jan 2022 | cquest_bot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | cquest (on osm) | French, English |
| b-jazz-bot | Converts http website values to https, where appropriate (worldwide activity). | Jan 2022 | b-jazz-bot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | b-jazz (on osm) | English |
| Mateusz Konieczny - bot account | numerous worldwide changes, see documentation | Jan 2022 | Mateusz Konieczny - bot account (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Mateusz Konieczny (on osm) | English, Polish |
| autoAWS | Updates address nodes in Denmark from official government source | every minute Fr-Mo | autoAWS (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | atcomapper (on osm) | English, Danish |
| czechreg | Makes automatic corrections (and updates) of Czech administrative boundaries and places. | Apr 2018 | czechreg (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | xificurk (on osm) | English |
| SearchAroundBot | Lets Telegram users insert new nodes in OSM via the Telegram bot @SearchAroundBot. Currently limited to drinking_water and toilets amenities. | Oct 2021 | SearchAroundBot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | @Kercos | English |
| M!dgardAutomated | Automated changes mostly in Belgium, automatic reverting of changesets by vandals | March 2018 | M!dgardAutomated (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Midgard[1] Wiki: User:M!dgard |
English, Dutch, French |
| SafwatHalaby_bot | Performs various tasks related to name tags, bus stops, and brands/chain stores (for now in Israel). | January 2018 | SafwatHalaby_bot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | SafwatHalaby (on osm) | English, Hebrew, Arabic, Russian |
| AWSBot | Updated address nodes in Denmark from official government source | July 2017 | AWSbot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | ||
| mechanischer Basstoelpel | Search and replace operations in Germany. | October 2016 | mechanischer_Basstoelpel (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Basstoelpel (on osm) | English, German |
| xybot | Cleanup of tags, removing null tags, trimming leading and trailing spaces, correcting common typos. | March 2016 | xybot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | xylome (on osm) | English, German |
| Streetkeysmv | Adds official German street keys to ways in province Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. | February 2016 | streetkeysmv (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | KVLA-HRO (on osm) | English, German |
| Wall-E | Carries out automatic corrections of specific errors in Germany and Austria. | August 2015 | Wall·E (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Oli-Wan (on osm) | English |
| botika | Used to repair street names in Colombia. | May 2013 | botika (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | ikks (on osm) | English, Spanish |
| General Dreedle | Automatically reverts edits by blacklisted contributors. | January 2013 | General Dreedle (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Richard (on osm) | English |
| MS BOT | Makes adjustments to tags within French speaking community. | November 2012 | MS BOT (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Marcussacapuces91 (on osm) | French |
| BugBuster | Splits long ways, removes duplicate nodes (worldwide activity). | October 2012 | BugBuster (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Bürste (on osm) | English |
| Fixbot | Algorithmic changes can be made within a defined geographical areas (mostly in the United States). | March 2012 | woodpeck_fixbot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Frederik Ramm (on osm) | English, German |
| PierenBot | Automated edits in France | September 2011 | PierenBot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Pieren (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English, French |
| Hotbot | Expands abbreviations in tags in Dominican Republic and Haiti. | May 2011 | hotbot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Humanitarian OSM Team | English |
| Import_US_OK_Murray | Murray import in Murray Country, US | January 2011 | Import_US_OK_Murray (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English | |
| MikeNBulk | NHD import in US | February 2010 | MikeNBulk (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English | |
| DaveHansenTiger | TIGER import in US | Ocbober 2009 | DaveHansenTiger (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | DaveHansen (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.)? | English |
| Corine Land Cover | Import WikiProject Corine Land Cover in France | October 2009 | CLCF06 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Pieren (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | French, English |
| Australian Bureau for Statistics | Import | March 2009 | ABS2006 (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English | |
| is_in-bot | Adds is_in=* tags to places in Germany. | November 2008 | is_in-bot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | flohoff (on osm) | English, German |
| Coastline Southern Africa | Importing coastlines | November 2007 | Coastline Southern Africa (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Firefishy (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| Coastlines-RJB | Import in Africa and Galapagos | August 2007 | Coastlines-RJB (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Firefishy (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| Adam Geitgey | SanGIS import around San Diego, California, user account also used for bot editing | ? | Adam Geitgey (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | Adam Geitgey (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| jumbanho | Import NHD in US, also used as regular user account | ? | jumbanho (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | jumbanho (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
Some bots are documented in the wiki following either the schema Automated edits/<Username> or Mechanical Edits/<Username> [<Description>]. Category:Automated edits log might be helpful as well.
List of wiki bots
There are also bots operating in this wiki. Some of them are in the user group "bot" (Special:ListUsers) meaning that the user accounts have special user rights. Apart from that, ordinary user accounts used by bots exist, notably ToniE osm wiki bot. Some bot accounts are listed in Category:Bots.
Wiki bureaucrats can grant the bot's user rights to user accounts upon request. This enables higher query limits and disables CAPTCHA for them.
The use of bots has been discussed on the talk mailing list in February 2019.[2]
If you have a task for a bot or want to create one, you can add a subject in this page: Talk:Wiki
| Bot name | Description | Active / Last used | Owner / operator contact |
Language(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mateusz_Konieczny_-_bot_account | Remove dead wikidata parameters | Sept 2022 | Mateusz Konieczny (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| MissingImageInfoBot | Sept 2022 | Mateusz Konieczny (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English | |
| OsmLogBot | IRC/wiki bot, was used for logging stuff to Servers/admin_log | 2012 | Firefishy (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| Osmonitor | A piece of software that analyzes OSM data and produces reports based on that data | 2013 | Ppawel (ppawel on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| PolyBOT | Only the WikiProject Netherlands/Cycle Routes/Node Network page, the BOT account was mainly be used to semi-automatically upload progress reports about the state of the cycle node networks | 2011 | Polyglot (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| TTTBot | Creating and updating tables with information about software products in the OpenStreetMap wiki using data from Software2 templates | Oct 2014 | Tordanik (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| TigerfellBot | It is used for the execution of scripts and other semi-automatic or automatic changes within the wiki. | 2018-2022 | Tigerfell (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| Usage Bot | The bot maintains galleries under Wiki:Files used by data items listing files used by the image (P28) and OSM Carto image (P39) properties. | 2022 | Ben Harris (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
| UserGroupsBot | This is a bot written in Python, collecting all Template:User_group together (every 6 hours) and generating a KML file to show them on a map: http://usergroups.openstreetmap.de | 2011 | !i! (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) Haribo (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) |
English |
| Yurikbot | Mostly I update data items using metabot | Jun 2020 | Yurik (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) | English |
See also
- Organised editing
- Read more about teams editing OSM
- Automated edits
- referring to the broader concept of changing data without reviewing every change individually
Footnotes
- ↑ user name ends with some map symbol that the wiki can not display on a page
- ↑ https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2019-February/thread.html#82096
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