MapLark
Turn OpenStreetMap into an API your app can call
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Details
- External ID
- 1255636
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- MapLark
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7631282115553327
- Tags
- API, SaaS, Maps
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Query real-world OpenStreetMap data - buildings, roads, parks, and more - via the MapLark OSM Features API. GeoJSON, FlatGeobuf, GeoParquet, or CSV. Open standards, no vendor lock-in. Geocoding, routing, and MCP also available to build geospatial apps with. Ask for cafes, buildings, or streets and get GeoJSON, opening hours, and walk or bike routes. Free tier. Try a query in minutes.
Enrichment
- Niche
- interactive maps and geospatial tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- openstreetmap api for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Processing, indexing, and serving planet-scale OpenStreetMap data with performant geospatial bounding box queries and multiple export formats requires dedicated geospatial data infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A production version requires an OSM ETL ingestion pipeline (osm2pgsql or Planetiler), PostGIS or DuckDB/Spatial backends, and caching layers to efficiently serve vector formats like GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, and GeoJSON at scale without falling over. Expertise in GIS data modeling, spatial indexing (H3, S2, R-tree), and high-throughput vector tile/feature serving is needed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 101 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- Free Google Places API alternative using OpenStreetMap (no API key) · hn · 2026-05-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- BuildMap · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- RutaGuía · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Maptoolkit.org · hn · 2026-07-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- A map of cafes that are in the sun · hn · 2026-07-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Drakkar.one · hn · 2026-03-17 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Serverless reverse geocoding for WebMCP, ESP32, and RP2040 · hn · 2026-09-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- MapScraper Pro · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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