🌍 Nominatim OpenStreetMap Geocoder

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

Turn addresses, landmarks, and place names into structured coordinates anywhere on Earth. This tool runs batch geocoding against OpenStreetMap's global Nominatim service, returning latitude, longitude, and full address components so you can enrich CRM records, power maps, or clean up customer data in bulk.

The Nominatim OSM Scraper converts free-form text queries into structured place records with coordinates, full address components, bounding boxes, OSM IDs, and type classification worldwide.

✨ What Does It Do

• 📍 Worldwide coverage - geocode addresses and places in every country
• 🗺️ Full address breakdown - street, city, county, state, country, postal code split into fields
• 📐 Coordinates + bounding box - precise latitude/longitude plus bounding rectangle
• 🏷️ Place classification - type (city, village, landmark) and category (amenity, tourism, etc.)
• 🌍 Country filtering - limit searches to specific countries with ISO codes
• 🆔 OSM identifiers - OSM type, ID, and place ID for cross-referencing
• 📑 Extra tags and name details - alternate names and extended attributes

🔧 Input

• Search Queries - list of free-form text queries (e.g. Eiffel Tower, 10 Downing Street London, Times Square NYC)
• Max Results Per Query - how many matches to return per query, 1-50
• Country Codes - optional ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes comma-separated (e.g. us,ca,mx)
• Max Items - free users get 10 records, paid users up to 1,000,000

{
    "queries": ["Eiffel Tower", "Times Square NYC", "Colosseum Rome"],
    "maxPerQuery": 3,
    "maxItems": 50
}

📊 Output

Each record is a matched place with full address and coordinates. Download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

📌 Field	📄 Description
🔍 query	Original search query
📋 displayName	Full human-readable place name
📝 name	Primary place name
🏷️ type	Place type (city, landmark, etc.)
📂 category	OSM category (tourism, amenity, etc.)
📍 latitude	Latitude in WGS84
📍 longitude	Longitude in WGS84
🛣️ street	Road/street name
🏙️ city	City, town, or village
🗺️ state	State or region
🌍 country	Country full name
🏷️ countryCode	2-letter country code
📮 postcode	Postal code
📐 boundingBox	Bounding box coordinates
🆔 osmType	OSM object type
🆔 osmId	OSM object ID

{
    "query": "Eiffel Tower",
    "displayName": "Tour Eiffel, 5, Avenue Anatole France, Gros-Caillou, 7th Arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, Metropolitan France, 75007, France",
    "name": "Tour Eiffel",
    "type": "attraction",
    "category": "tourism",
    "latitude": 48.8582602,
    "longitude": 2.2944991,
    "street": "Avenue Anatole France",
    "city": "Paris",
    "state": "Île-de-France",
    "country": "France",
    "countryCode": "FR",
    "postcode": "75007",
    "importance": 0.9571,
    "osmType": "way",
    "osmId": "5013364",
    "boundingBox": "48.857891,48.858623,2.293925,2.295074",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-10T12:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose the Nominatim OSM Scraper?

Feature	Our Tool	Manual Geocoding
Batch geocoding	✅ Bulk queries	❌ One at a time
Global coverage	✅ Every country	⚠️ Varies by provider
Full address split	✅ Structured fields	⚠️ Single text
Country filter	✅ ISO codes	⚠️ Limited
Bounding box included	✅ Yes	⚠️ Rare
Export to JSON/CSV/Excel	✅ Yes	❌ Not supported

📋 How to Use

1. Sign Up - Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Configure - paste your search queries and optional country filter
3. Run It - click Start and get structured place records in seconds

No coding, no per-request lookups, no paid geocoding bills.

🎯 Business Use Cases

• 🗺️ CRM enrichment - geocode customer addresses to enable map views and routing
• 🚚 Logistics - resolve delivery addresses to coordinates for route optimization
• 📱 Map applications - power location search in your mobile or web app
• 📊 Data cleaning - verify and standardize address data in CSV imports
• 🏪 Store locators - geocode branch addresses for distance-based lookups
• 🌍 Travel apps - convert points of interest into coordinates for itineraries

✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Nominatim OpenStreetMap Geocoder (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Nominatim OpenStreetMap Geocoder page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Geocoded datasets for spatial analysis and GIS coursework Reproducible research with cited, versioned dataset pulls OpenStreetMap data quality studies and contributor analytics Classroom exercises on geocoding, mapping, and ethics	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, indie travel apps, and portfolio demos Custom map visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for travel bloggers and creators Hobbyist databases of points of interest
🤝 Non-profit and civic Disaster-response logistics with geocoded address mapping Civic transparency around regional infrastructure Investigative journalism on location-based patterns OpenStreetMap community contributions and validation	🧪 Experimentation Train geocoding-quality or address-classification models Validate location-based product hypotheses with real data Prototype agent pipelines that resolve addresses to coordinates Test dashboard concepts with live location feeds

🔌 Integrate with any app

Nominatim OpenStreetMap Geocoder connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🌍 What is Nominatim? Nominatim is the official geocoding service built on OpenStreetMap, the open map of the world maintained by a global community of contributors.

📍 What kind of queries work? Any free-form text: street addresses, landmark names, city names, postal codes, or combinations. Examples: Eiffel Tower Paris, 10 Downing Street London, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, M5V 3L9.

🏷️ How accurate are the coordinates? Accuracy depends on the OpenStreetMap data for the area. Major landmarks and urban addresses are usually spot-on; rural areas can vary.

🌐 Can I limit searches to specific countries? Yes. Pass ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes (comma-separated) like us,ca,mx in the Country Codes field.

⏱️ How many queries can I run? Up to 1 million queries for paid users. The tool automatically paces requests to respect Nominatim's usage policy.

🌍 What languages do the results come in? You can request results in any language. Pass a languages value like en, es, fr, de, ja, or any IETF tag. Field values like display_name and name come back in the requested language when OpenStreetMap has it.

🏠 Does it return full address breakdowns? Yes. Each record includes a structured address object with house number, street, city, postcode, country, country code, neighbourhood, and administrative levels (state, county, region) when available.

📐 Can I do reverse geocoding too? Yes. Switch the mode to reverse and pass latitude/longitude pairs. The Actor returns the closest matching address with the same field structure as forward search.

🗺️ What types of places are supported? Anything OpenStreetMap maps: addresses, points of interest, businesses, parks, mountains, rivers, administrative regions, postal codes, and more. The class and type fields tell you the kind of place each result is.

🔢 Why do some queries return multiple results? For ambiguous queries (e.g. Springfield, Main Street) Nominatim returns ranked candidates. The Actor surfaces all of them so you can pick the best by importance score or by filtering on country.

📊 Can I get bounding boxes for each result? Yes. Every record includes a boundingBox array (south, north, west, east) defining the geographic extent of the place, useful for map zoom or area queries.

🆔 What is placeId and osmId? placeId is Nominatim's internal stable identifier for that specific match. osmId is the underlying OpenStreetMap node, way, or relation ID - useful if you want to look up the raw OSM record.

🔄 Does the data refresh in real time? The Actor hits Nominatim live, so results reflect the current OpenStreetMap state at run time. OSM contributors update the underlying data continuously.

🔗 Integrate Nominatim OSM Scraper with any app

• Make - automate address geocoding
• Zapier - enrich new CRM records
• Slack - post geocoding summaries
• Google Sheets - add coordinates to address sheets
• Webhooks - trigger workflows on completion

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🆘 Need Help?

• Check the FAQ section above for common questions
• Visit the Apify documentation for platform guides
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⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to OpenStreetMap, Nominatim, or the OpenStreetMap Foundation. It uses only publicly available geocoding services.