Local Business Finder (OpenStreetMap)
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from $1.00 / 1,000 results
Local Business Finder (OpenStreetMap)
Find local businesses by area and category with website, phone and address. Open data — no blocking, no proxy cost, no terms-of-service exposure.
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from $1.00 / 1,000 results
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Martin Raum
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Find local businesses by area and category — name, website, phone, address, opening hours, coordinates. This is the top of the lead pipeline.
Why open data instead of scraping a maps product
- No blocking, no proxy cost. Nothing to be rate-limited out of.
- No terms-of-service exposure for you or your client. OpenStreetMap is licensed for reuse under ODbL; attribution is included in every record.
- Honest trade-off: coverage is thinner than a commercial map, and varies by region and category. The run summary reports exactly how many records carried a website and a phone, so an empty result is never mistaken for "no businesses here".
Built for reliability
Overpass is community-run and returns 504 under load — during development a single endpoint failed three times in a row and made the whole approach look impossible. This rotates four mirrors with retries before giving up.
It also queries both node and way and de-duplicates, because a business
mapped as a building footprint and as a point would otherwise appear twice.
Input
| field | notes |
|---|---|
location | "Brighton, UK" — geocoded to a bounding box for you |
categories | 30 supported, from accountant and lawyer to plumber and bakery |
onlyWithWebsite | recommended when piping into the lead finder |
maxResults | up to 1000 |
bbox | [south, west, north, east] if you want exact control |
The pipeline
Run this to get the companies, then feed the website column into the Business
Contact & Lead Finder, which crawls each site and returns decision-makers with
job titles, emails, phones and LinkedIn pages.
Attribution: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL.
