name-suggestion-index ("NSI")

Canonical features for OpenStreetMap, collected manually and via the NSI Collector planet scan.

What is it?

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!

Browse the index

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

How it's used

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 (and SCEE)
• Every Door
• All The Places

About the index

See the project wiki for details.

Contributing

See the CONTRIBUTING.md file for more info.

If you have any questions or want to reach out to a maintainer, ping any of these folks:

• archpdx (arch0345)
• Bryan Housel
• Cj Malone
• Kevin Ratzel
• ilias52730
• kjonosm
• 快乐的老鼠宝宝 (LaoshuBaby)
• Minh Nguyễn (1ec5)
• Tim Smith (tas50)
• UKChris-osm

We can be found in:

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

License

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