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Osint Daily cover for Overpass Turbo, under Geolocation & imagery, published 24 Oct 2026. The right side crops the listing capture. Web IDE for OpenStreetMap Overpass queries.

01 · Product name

Overpass Turbo

Web IDE for OpenStreetMap Overpass queries.

Published by Martin Raifer.

In short

Overpass Turbo is the browser IDE at overpass-turbo.eu for OpenStreetMap’s Overpass API. On 24 Oct 2026 the site printed no dollar price. The GitHub API license field was NOASSERTION and stargazers_count was 1260. The repository page said 1.3k stars. The LICENSE file is the MIT permission grant, copyright 2012 Martin Raifer. There were no GitHub releases. The latest tag was 2020-01-07, and pushed_at was 2026-10-20. A query returns map features. It does not return who lives at an address.

Product pricing strategy

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Free

Overpass Turbo printed no dollar price on 24 Oct 2026. The IDE, the README, and the GitHub repository page have no checkout and no plan names. The GitHub API license field was NOASSERTION. The LICENSE file is the MIT grant, copyright 2012 Martin Raifer, and it says permission is granted free of charge. That sentence is the license grant. It is not a hosted-service price, and NOASSERTION stays the API field. The repository page said 1.3k stars. The API count was 1260. Do not average them. There were no GitHub releases. The latest tag date in the API was 2020-01-07. pushed_at was 2026-10-20T19:42:47Z. The push is not a release. OpenStreetMap data has its own license, which this page did not restate.

Utility and features

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The IDE at https://overpass-turbo.eu/ opened with Run, Wizard, and a map credited to OpenStreetMap contributors. A query loaded in the editor was node["tourism"="attraction"] for the box 51.500, -0.128, 51.506, -0.118. The in-browser run stayed on “processing query… calling Overpass API interpreter” for the whole wait. A separate request to https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter with that query returned five elements, named Big Ben, New Scotland Yard, The London Dungeon, Shrek’s Adventure, and The Paddington Bear Experience. Those names are the API’s. They were not painted as pins in the IDE during the wait. A map view centered at zoom 16 on 51.5005, -0.1245 showed Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster.

  • No dollar price. The IDE and the repository print no checkout. The LICENSE file grants permission free of charge. The API field is NOASSERTION.
  • 1.3k stars and 1260 stars. The GitHub page said 1.3k. The API said 1260. pushed_at was 2026-10-20. The latest tag was 2020-01-07. There were no releases.
  • Five attractions from the interpreter. Big Ben, New Scotland Yard, The London Dungeon, Shrek’s Adventure, and The Paddington Bear Experience. The IDE was still processing.

The GitHub repository tyrasd/overpass-turbo showed Star 1.3k, 181 forks, 252 issues, and 7 pull requests. The API the same morning returned stargazers_count 1260, license.spdx_id NOASSERTION, and pushed_at 2026-10-20T19:42:47Z. The releases list was empty. Tags included 2020-01-07. The README says the stable site is overpass-turbo.eu and that the latest build is tyrasd.github.io/overpass-turbo. The LICENSE file begins Copyright (c) 2012 Martin Raifer and continues with the MIT permission grant. The sidebar lists a License link and does not print the word NOASSERTION.

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    Quote NOASSERTION and the MIT grant as two sentences. Do not let the file replace the field.

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    Keep 1.3k and 1260 apart, and keep the 2020 tag apart from the 20 Oct 2026 push.

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    Treat a returned feature as a mapped tag. Do not treat a missing tag as proof the object is absent.

Caveats

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The IDE and the interpreter did not agree on timing. The browser stayed on processing. The interpreter returned five named attractions for the same query. Quote the channel you mean. The five names are public attractions in that box. They are not a complete map of Westminster, and a later query can return a different count.

NOASSERTION is the API field. The MIT grant is the LICENSE file. 1.3k is the page. 1260 is the API. The 2020-01-07 tag is not the 20 Oct 2026 push. A feature in OpenStreetMap is a tag someone mapped. It can be missing, wrong, or out of date. This listing does not publish a query for surveillance cameras. Bellingcat’s OpenStreetMap Search is a separate tool and, on this day, asked for a sign-in before it would search.

Screenshots

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Overpass Turbo query still processing. IDE at https://overpass-turbo.eu/ on 24 Oct 2026. The editor holds a tourism=attraction query. The run stayed on processing. No pins were drawn. Captured 2026-10-24. Source
Overpass Turbo map by Westminster. Map hash at https://overpass-turbo.eu/#map=16/51.5005/-0.1245 on 24 Oct 2026. The pane is the river by Westminster. No result pins were drawn. Captured 2026-10-24. Source

Potential use cases

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  • The LICENSE file is about to replace the API field. On 24 Oct 2026 the GitHub API license field was NOASSERTION and stargazers_count was 1260. The repository page said 1.3k stars. The LICENSE file is the MIT grant, copyright 2012 Martin Raifer, and says permission is granted free of charge. NOASSERTION stays the field. The file stays the file.
  • The interpreter’s five names are about to be called the IDE’s result. The browser stayed on processing query… calling Overpass API interpreter. A separate request to the Overpass interpreter returned Big Ben, New Scotland Yard, The London Dungeon, Shrek’s Adventure, and The Paddington Bear Experience. Those names are the API’s. The map frame has no pins.
  • A mapped tag is about to be briefed as a resident. A feature in OpenStreetMap is a tag someone mapped. It can be missing, wrong, or out of date. This listing does not publish a query for surveillance cameras. The latest tag was 2020-01-07. pushed_at was 2026-10-20. There were no GitHub releases.

Hard cases

The case where the first result is easy to over-read.

The MIT file replaces NOASSERTION

NOASSERTION is the GitHub API field on 24 Oct 2026. The LICENSE file is the MIT grant. Using the file as the field, or the field as the file, hides which source you read. The page said 1.3k stars. The API said 1260.

Practitioners using it

Posts on X from people describing a concrete use. The quote is the post. Likes and reposts are the counts saved with it, not a live total. A label marks a creator, a maintainer, a vendor, a partner, a data partner, or an investor.

Questions

Is Overpass Turbo free?

The IDE printed no dollar price on 24 Oct 2026. The GitHub API license field was NOASSERTION. The LICENSE file is the MIT grant, copyright 2012 Martin Raifer, and says permission is free of charge.

Why are the star counts different?

The repository page said 1.3k stars. The API returned 1260. The latest tag was 2020-01-07 and pushed_at was 2026-10-20. There were no GitHub releases.

Citations

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