Canonical features for OpenStreetMap

The goal of this project is to maintain a canonical list of commonly used features for suggesting consistent spelling and tagging in OpenStreetMap.

👉   Watch the video from our talk at State of the Map US 2019 to learn more about this project!

You can browse the name-suggestion-index and check Wikidata links for accuracy at https://nsi.guide.

When mappers create features in OpenStreetMap, they are not always consistent about how they name and tag things. For example, we may prefer McDonald's tagged as amenity=fast_food but we see many examples of other spellings (Mc Donald's, McDonalds, McDonald’s) and taggings (amenity=restaurant).

Building a canonical feature index allows two very useful things:

• We can suggest the most "correct" way to tag things as users create them while editing.
• We can scan the OSM data for "incorrect" features and produce lists for review and cleanup.

The name-suggestion-index is in use in iD when adding a new item

Currently used in:

• RapiD
• iD (see above)
• Vespucci
• JOSM presets available
• Osmose
• osmfeatures
• Go Map!!
• StreetComplete

See the project wiki for details.

We're always looking for help!

• Read the Code of Conduct and remember to be kind to one another.
• See the project wiki for info about how to contribute to this index.

If you have any questions or want to reach out to a maintainer, ping @bhousel, @1ec5, or @tas50 on:

• OpenStreetMap US Slack (#poi or #general channels)

name-suggestion-index is available under the 3-Clause BSD License. See the LICENSE.md file for more details.