🆚 OpenStreetMap vs. Waze

📈 OpenStreetMap is much more popular than Waze.
🌎 OpenStreetMap is more popular in Germany, France, and the United States.
🌍 Waze is more popular in Israel, Malaysia, and Guatemala.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

OpenStreetMap

Waze

Type

Online mapping service

About

OpenStreetMap is a free, editable world map project that provides open geographic data created and maintained by a global community of contributors.

Its data includes roads, buildings, points of interest, and transport networks, supports detailed tagging, enables full data export and custom map rendering, and is released under the Open Database License, which allows copying, modification, and commercial use with attribution and the requirement to keep derived data open.

Waze is a free GPS navigation service currently owned by Google.

Headquarters

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

openstreetmap.org #5,341

waze.com #1,126

Pricing

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The OpenStreetMap service is 12 times more popular than Waze.

Total websites

Market share

Maps

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

OpenStreetMap is more popular in Germany, France, and the United States, while Waze is more popular in Israel, Malaysia, and Guatemala.

Germany

France

United States

Poland

Italy

Israel

United Kingdom

Spain

Netherlands

Belgium

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Maps category.
🥈 Second most popular in France in the Maps category.
🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Maps category.
🥈 Second most popular in Italy in the Maps category.
🥈 Second most popular in Spain in the Maps category.

🥈 Second most popular in Israel in the Maps category.
🥈 Second most popular in Malaysia in the Maps category.
🥉 Third most popular in Chile in the Maps category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Brazil in the Maps category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

OpenStreetMap is more popular than Waze in all market segments.

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Travel

Online Shopping

Public Information

Education/Reference

Government/Military

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Health

Internet Services

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#45

#342

#731

#994

Name

Rank

#1,126

#24,274

#28,190

#42,948

#51,170