OpenStreetMap Foundation
OpenStreetMap
Community-maintained global geospatial database, including water treatment works, wastewater plants, reservoirs, water towers, pipelines and watercourses tagged by contributors.
Rights
- Commercial reuse
- Yes
- Redistribution
- Yes
- Derivative use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- YesData from OpenStreetMap Foundation, used under Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0.
- Restrictions
- Derived databases must be released under the same licence.
- Terms last checked
- 23 August 2026
Access and coverage
- Publisher
- OpenStreetMap Foundation
- Geographic coverage
- Global — coverage varies greatly by region
- Temporal coverage
- 2004 onwards
- Update frequency
- real-time
- Formats
- geojson, xml, api
- Bulk download
- Available
- Registration required
- No
- Rate limit
- Overpass API enforces per-IP time and volume quotas
- Cost to Hydrionis
- Free
- Domains
- infrastructure, reservoir
Notes
Crowd-sourced completeness is uneven. Hydrionis uses OSM for locating infrastructure that is independently confirmed elsewhere, not as sole evidence that a facility exists.