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OSM Energy Infrastructure

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Query OpenStreetMap's crowdsourced energy infrastructure anywhere on Earth through the Overpass API. Find power plants, substations, generators, transmission lines, and towers (with voltage, operator, source, and output), plus oil and gas pipelines, by a required bounding box and OSM tag. The only global, no-auth, queryable source for power and pipeline assets — it complements US-only HIFLD, BTS NTAD, and Rextag with worldwide coverage. Every query is bounded to keep results sane and the upstream mirrors happy.

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Provenance

PublisherOSM Energy Infrastructure
API basehttps://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter

Freshness & coverage

FreshnessFreshness not declared
GeographicNot declared
TemporalNot declared
AuthenticationNo credentials required

Methods (4)

  • searchPowerInfra

    read

    Find OSM power plants, substations, generators, lines, or towers in a bbox.

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "type": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "plant"
      ]
    },
    "bbox": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "number"
      }
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    type + bbox REQUIRED. GeoJSON; tags: voltage, operator, source, output.

  • searchPipelines

    read

    Find OSM oil/gas/water pipelines (man_made=pipeline) in a bbox.

    Entitiespipeline
    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "bbox": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "number"
      }
    },
    "substance": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "gas"
      ]
    },
    "usage": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    bbox REQUIRED; substance/usage best-effort (often absent). LineString geom.

  • searchByTag

    read

    Escape hatch: query any OSM key=value tag within a bbox.

    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "key": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "power"
      ]
    },
    "value": {
      "type": "string",
      "examples": [
        "cable"
      ]
    },
    "elementTypes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "oneOf": [
          {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "node"
            ]
          },
          {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "way"
            ]
          },
          {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "relation"
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "bbox": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "number"
      }
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

    key/value validated [A-Za-z0-9_:]; bbox REQUIRED. node/way/relation.

  • getServiceInfo

    read

    List Overpass mirrors with live reachability and the tag vocabulary.

    Entitiesmetadata
    Input schema
    {
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "additionalProperties": false
}