Economy and society
The economic and social fabric of a territory: retail, offices, industrial land, mixed-use zones, access to schools, healthcare, food and recreation, and a population-density estimate. Everything is counted from OSM objects — these are indicators for comparing neighbourhoods, not official statistics.
Tools in this group: 12
Industrial zones
industrial-zone
Computes the area and the share of industrial zones in the area and shows how they are laid out.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Commercial saturation
market-area
Estimates the retail saturation of the territory from the number of shops, banks and offices.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Mixed use
mixed-use
Finds the zones where housing sits next to retail and offices and estimates the degree of mixing of functions.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Office density
office-density
Computes the density of office buildings and a breakdown by type of office.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Retail clusters
retail-cluster
Finds concentrations of shops and estimates the density and the composition of retail.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Vacant properties (proxy)
vacancy-proxy
An estimate of abandonment from the disused and abandoned tags. This is a sign in OSM data, not confirmed vacancy statistics.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Commercial activity
commercial-activity
Computes the density of shops, banks, offices and consumer services as an indicator of business activity.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Access to education
education-access
Estimates the accessibility of schools, universities and kindergartens: their number and the distances; the type of institution is set by edu_type.
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Access to food
food-access
Estimates the accessibility of supermarkets, cafés and restaurants by their number and how far away they are.
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Access to healthcare
healthcare-access
Estimates the accessibility of hospitals, clinics and pharmacies: their number and the distances to the nearest ones.
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Population density (estimate)
population-density
An estimate of the number of residents from the floor area of residential buildings and the number of storeys; where the storeys are missing, floors_default is used. This is a model estimate, not a census.
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Recreation
recreation
Computes the provision of parks, sports and cultural facilities.
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No extra parameters — the bounding box is enough for this tool.
Input, output and limits
The input is a rectangular bounding box in WGS84 plus one of nine data layers; some tools also take a point. The output is GeoJSON, JSON metrics or a GeoTIFF.
| Layer | What it holds |
|---|---|
| buildings | buildings |
| roads | roads and streets |
| poi | points of interest: services, shops, tourism |
| water | water bodies |
| green_areas | green areas: parks, forests, lawns |
| railways | railways |
| boundaries | administrative boundaries |
| landuse | land use |
| waterways | waterways |
Every tool in the section is free. The bounding box may cover up to 100 km². Rate limits are 10 requests per minute per tool run and 30 requests per minute for reading the catalogue. Without signing in you get up to 10 successful calculations a day; after that the service asks you to register and answers 402 with the code login_required. A box larger than the allowed area is also 402, and an unknown tool id is 404.