OpenStreetMap POI Finder

Query OpenStreetMap's Overpass API for any point, bounding box, or city — cafés, restaurants, shops, parks, schools, hospitals and 1,000+ other POI categories.

What it does

• Submits one or more Overpass-QL queries and returns one record per matching OSM element
• Each record carries geometry, the primary OSM category tag, structured address/contact fields, and the full raw tag map
• No proxy, no auth, no captcha, no JS rendering
• Handles element-type selection (node, way, relation) per query

Input

Field	Required	Description
queries	yes	List of query objects (see schema below)
maxResults	no	Cap on records emitted per query (default 1000)
overpassEndpoint	no	Override Overpass base URL (default https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter)

Each queries[] entry:

{
  "label": "Cafés in downtown SF",
  "bbox": "37.7749,-122.4194,37.7849,-122.4094",
  "filters": ["amenity=cafe", "amenity=restaurant"],
  "elementType": "node"
}

• bbox: "south,west,north,east" decimal degrees (Overpass convention)
• filters: list of "key=value" strings (e.g. amenity=cafe, shop=bakery, tourism=museum)
• elementType: node (default), way, or relation
• label: free-form, surfaces in every emitted record for traceability

Output

One record per matching element, plus a final _summary: true record with per-query counts:

{
  "queryLabel": "Cafés and restaurants in downtown San Francisco",
  "bbox": { "south": 37.7749, "west": -122.4194, "north": 37.7849, "east": -122.4094 },
  "filters": ["amenity=cafe", "amenity=restaurant"],
  "osmType": "node",
  "osmId": 1493456487,
  "lat": 37.7770688,
  "lon": -122.41733,
  "name": "Starbucks",
  "category": "amenity",
  "subcategory": "cafe",
  "address": { "street": "Market Street", "housenumber": "1390", "city": "San Francisco", "postcode": "94102", "state": "CA" },
  "contact": { "phone": "+1-415-555-0100", "website": "https://...", "opening_hours": "Mo-Fr 07:00-19:00" },
  "tags": { "amenity": "cafe", "brand": "Starbucks", "cuisine": "coffee_shop", "wheelchair": "yes" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-08T12:34:56.789Z"
}

Examples

Coffee shops + bakeries in a 1km box around SF Union Square:

{
  "queries": [
    {
      "label": "Coffee and bakeries near Union Square",
      "bbox": "37.7820,-122.4100,37.7920,-122.4000",
      "filters": ["amenity=cafe", "shop=bakery"],
      "elementType": "node"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 500
}

All parks in a city-wide box:

{
  "queries": [
    {
      "label": "Parks in San Francisco",
      "bbox": "37.7050,-122.5150,37.8350,-122.3550",
      "filters": ["leisure=park"],
      "elementType": "way"
    }
  ]
}

Pricing

Free tier: 100 runs/month on Apify's free plan. Each run is a single Overpass POST.

Limitations

• Overpass rate-limits per IP. For high-volume runs, use overpassEndpoint to switch to a regional mirror (https://overpass.kumi.systems/api/interpreter, https://overpass.us/api/interpreter).
• way and relation queries require Overpass to compute centroids — adds a few seconds per query but is handled by the public server.
• Bounding-box queries only. Radius-around-point and city-name geocoding are out of scope for v0.1.

Changelog

• 0.1.0 — initial release. One-or-more query list, Overpass-QL generation, structured JSON output with address/contact extraction.