OpenStreetMap as part of your operational system – not as a manual map retrieval.
Connect OpenStreetMap – Customized and Seamless
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the world's largest open map project – a freely usable, community-maintained geodatabase containing streets, buildings, points of interest, and infrastructure data. Through APIs like Nominatim (Geocoding), OSRM (Routing), and Overpass (Data Queries), companies can integrate map data, address resolution, and route calculation into their own systems – without license costs and dependencies on commercial providers. For operationally complex companies with resource planning, logistics, or location distribution, OSM data is relevant because geodata plays a role in many business processes and should not rely on proprietary platforms. We integrate OpenStreetMap into customized enterprise software. No pre-built standard connection, no plug-in with limitations – rather, a tailored integration that fits your processes and your system precisely.
What We Connect
| Integration Options | |
|---|---|
| 🔄 | Embed interactive map views directly into your central application – for deployments, locations, customers |
| 📊 | Use geodata for spatial analysis – catchment areas, location assessment, customer distribution |
| 📄 | Automatically geocode and validate addresses – during order creation, import, or customer maintenance |
| ⚡ | Real-time route calculation and distance estimation – for dispatch, tour planning, and field service |
| 🔗 | Seamless integration with ERP, dispatch, CRM, fleet management, and other systems |
How the Integration Works
We work directly with the OpenStreetMap ecosystem APIs – Nominatim for geocoding, OSRM or GraphHopper for routing, Overpass for data queries, and Tile Server for map rendering. The connection is developed as an integral part of your operating system – no third-party middleware, no workarounds. What this concretely means:
| 🏗️ | Customized connection – built for your processes, not for the average |
| 🔄 | Automatic data flow – geodata is processed automatically during creation, modification, or planning |
| 🗄️ | A data foundation – location data is part of your central data model |
| 🛡️ | Secure and GDPR-compliant – Open Data, self-hostable, no user data transfer to third parties |
Typical Use Case
A caregiving provider with 45 employees coordinates daily routes for 20 mobile caregivers – home visits to patients, distributed across a city and its outskirts. Currently, the dispatch plans routes manually, estimates travel times based on experience, and occasionally checks addresses on Google Maps. New patients are entered into the system with their address, but whether the address is correctly resolved and exactly where it lies in the tour area is not systematically checked. Travel time estimates are inaccurate, routes are suboptimal, and when a caregiver falls out, re-planning starts from scratch. Through integration, OpenStreetMap becomes the spatial core of the operating system. Each patient address is automatically geocoded upon entry – position on the map, distance to existing tour points. The dispatch works with a map view displaying all patients, current tours, and available caregivers. Routes are automatically calculated and optimized based on travel time. If a caregiver drops out, the system suggests a redistribution – based on proximity, qualifications, and remaining capacity. No license costs, no dependency on commercial map services, and full control over the data.
Part of Your Operating System
OpenStreetMap is the most comprehensive open geodata source in the world – free of charge, flexible, and without vendor lock-in. However, used in isolation, it remains just a map in a browser, queried manually. Only as part of an integrated system does OSM unleash its full potential – when geodata flows automatically into planning processes, routes are optimized in real-time, and the map does not exist alongside the work process, but rather the work process takes place on the map. We develop AI-powered operating systems for operationally complex companies. The OpenStreetMap integration is one building block of that.