What The World Bothered To Map Screensaver
The What The World Bothered To Map screensaver shows the most-used tag keys in OpenStreetMap, key-less from taginfo. The order is a portrait of what mappers considered worth recording: building leads because tracing from aerial imagery is the most parallelisable job in the project, while source ranks absurdly high despite being metadata about the mapping rather than about the world. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the What The World Bothered To Map screensaver works
The saver reads the source described above and draws it on a canvas — no account, no tracking.
The most-used tag keys in OpenStreetMap, key-less from taginfo. The order is a portrait of what mappers considered worth recording: building leads because tracing from aerial imagery is the most parallelisable job in the project, while source ranks absurdly high despite being metadata about the mapping rather than about the world.
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
A worked example
The most-used tag keys in OpenStreetMap, key-less from taginfo. The order is a portrait of what mappers considered worth recording: building leads because tracing from aerial imagery is the most parallelisable job in the project, while source ranks absurdly high despite being metadata about the mapping rather than about the world.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display.
- Every value on screen comes from the live source — nothing is simulated.
- Press ESC to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from the source named on this page and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes, and it runs entirely in your browser.