# Changelog of OpenStreetMap POI Extractor (`automation-lab/openstreetmap-poi-extractor`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/openstreetmap-poi-extractor/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/openstreetmap-poi-extractor.md

## Changelog

### 2026-09-02

*Features*

- Added case-insensitive place and brand name search within a location, radius, or bounding box, with no Overpass QL required.

### 2026-07-25

*Reliability*

- Improved extraction reliability during Overpass API outages by using a responsive public mirror and retrying connection-level failures.

*Changes*

- Added complete dataset field descriptions so output is easier to inspect in Console and use through AI integrations.

### 2026-06-22

*Features*

- Added public task examples for common OpenStreetMap point-of-interest extraction workflows.

### 2026-04-08

*Features*

- Initial release for extracting restaurants, hotels, shops, schools, hospitals, parks, and other points of interest from OpenStreetMap.
- Supports city-and-radius or bounding-box searches and exports coordinates, addresses, websites, opening hours, and OpenStreetMap tags.