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Citypedia is built on OpenStreetMap, which means the map is not something that happens to you. Every place has a Suggest an edit button, and what you send through it can end up in the map that everyone else uses too.
What you can change
All of it from the place's own screen in the app — no separate editor, no tag syntax to learn.
Name and category
Rename a place, or move it to one of the 450+ categories — including proposing a place that isn't on the map at all.
The address, and the pin
Street, house number, unit, postcode and city, plus the coordinates themselves. The picker shows where you are standing, drops the pin on your GPS position at a tap, and draws a scale bar so you can judge how far you have moved it.
Opening hours
Including the odd ones — split days, seasonal hours, and places that never close.
How to get in touch
Phone, email, website and a separate booking link, plus Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, WhatsApp and YouTube.
What the place actually has
Features like Wi-Fi, takeaway or outdoor seating, how expensive it is, and how loud it gets.
Which floor it is on
For anything inside a building — a shop in a mall, a toilet on the second floor of a station.
A description
In English or in the local language, so it reads properly to the people nearby.
Wikipedia and Wikidata
Link a monument or museum to its article, and the app can show the description and photos from there.
Photos
Take one on the spot, or pick one from your library.
That it has closed
Mark a place permanently closed instead of leaving it on the map for the next person to walk to.
Where your edit goes
- 1
You send it
You need an account for this, because an edit is attributable work. If you are signed out or offline when you hit send, the draft is kept on your device so nothing is lost.
- 2
We read it
Every suggestion is reviewed by a person before it goes anywhere. There is a note field if you want to tell us something that doesn't fit in a form.
- 3
It goes to OpenStreetMap
Approved tag edits are uploaded to OpenStreetMap, where they become part of the map everyone uses — not just ours. Occasionally OpenStreetMap refuses an edit; when that happens the change can still be kept on our own copy, so you may see it in Citypedia before it exists upstream.
An edit is permanent, and it is public
This is the part worth understanding before you send your first one. OpenStreetMap data is published under the Open Database License, and its edit history is permanent. Once an edit of yours is approved and uploaded, it has been published under that licence and cannot be withdrawn — not by us, and not by you. Deleting your Citypedia account does not reach into OpenStreetMap.
So send things that are true about the place, and don't put anything in an edit that you would not want attached to a public record. The privacy policy sets out what we hold and for how long.
Photos work differently. They go to our own servers rather than to OpenStreetMap, and they appear on the place straight away — they are not checked first. Anyone can report a photo, and we review what gets reported and remove what should not be there.
Let the AI do the typing
Filling in a form on the pavement is the reason most corrections never get made. These run on your own API key, which you add in Settings — bring a key and they appear, skip it and the manual fields all still work.
- Scan a storefront. Point the camera at the sign and the AI reads the name, the category, the opening hours and features like Wi-Fi or takeaway off it.
- Fill from a website. Give it the place's own site and it suggests the name, category, hours, contact details, socials and features for you to check.
- Find the website. If you don't have one, it hunts for a likely match and compares the name, street, postcode, city and phone number before offering it.
- Suggest a category. It ranks the best matches from your photos, the name and the location, and tells you why it picked each one.
- Match it to Wikipedia. Useful for monuments, churches and museums, where the article already holds the detail.
Check what comes back before you send it. A website can be as out of date as the map, and the app says so at the point where it matters. What travels to your AI provider is described in the privacy policy.
Start with somewhere you know
The café on your street, the toilet in the park, the shop that closed last year. Free on iPhone, iPad and Android.
Place data from OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License, together with details contributed by Citypedia users.