As a research and development service, the contract is excluded from the scope of public procurement law (cf. § 116(1)(2) GWB). OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a global collaborative project to collect all kinds of map data and d…
istribute it as open data freely usable by everybody. The OpenStreetMap project is at the heart of an open map dataset that has become central to many applications that need geospatial data. Many sectors rely on the data provided by OSM in order to do their work, which supports the case for OSM qual
ifying to meet the definition of infrastructure. There are no other open alternatives. OpenStreetMap data can be found in mobile apps (e.g. OsmAnd, OrganicMaps), in the map-related products of large and small companies (e.g. Deutsche Bahn,