OpenStreetMap
I gathered some statistics about usage of the website and tiles in 2022Q3.
I looked at total tile.osm.org usage, tile.osm.org usage from osm.org itself, osm.org visits, and osm.org unique visitors.
Here’s the data for the top 20 countries.
| country | osm.org tile requests | total tile requests | Website visits | Website unique Visitors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE | 17.79% | 7.78% | 8.27% | 7.98% |
| RU | 12.23% | 8.49% | 2.47% | 2.43% |
| US | 8.72% | 9.22% | 13.11% | 13.56% |
| PL | 7.69% | 4.99% | 3.09% | 2.80% |
| GB | 4.85% | 3.68% | 4.42% | 4.42% |
| FR | 4.79% | 7.00% | 3.91% | 3.94% |
| NL | 3.62% | 3.31% | 2.17% | 2.09% |
| IT | 3.49% | 3.46% | 4.74% | 4.86% |
| IN | 2.64% | 2.66% | 3.67% | 3.16% |
| CN | 2.62% | 0.79% | 2.65% | 2.72% |
| AT | 2.03% | 0.89% | 0.98% | 0.91% |
| UA | 1.78% | 1.98% | 1.20% | 1.21% |
| CH | 1.41% | 0.71% | 0.83% | 0.82% |
| CA | 1.29% | 1.59% | 1.36% | 1.39% |
| BE | 1.29% | 1.06% | 1.10% | 1.03% |
| ES | 1.27% | 2.41% | 2.32% | 2.39% |
| JP | 1.10% | 1.54% | 1.74% | 1.71% |
| AU | 1.09% | 0.92% | 0.88% | 0.82% |
| SE | 0.91% | 0.95% | 0.87% | 0.88% |
| FI | 0.89% | 0.74% | 0.74% | 0.71% |
I’ve put the full data into a gist on github
Discussion
Comment from jonsger on 24 November 2022 at 13:04
So German users view 3x as many tiles per visit on osm.org compared to US-american users.
RU and UA a bit higher that I expected. Thats maybe connected to sanctions (unavailability of other map providers) and all those “war maps” using OSM tiles…
Comment from TrickyFoxy on 3 December 2022 at 20:39
In RU, OSM tiles have been actively used before. Moreover, OSMF has blocked OSM tiles for some government websites https://t.me/shtosm/564
Of the foreign suppliers, Google and Mapbox are actively used, which are still available. Many use local map providers (Yandex, 2GIS, VK)