About OpenBookMap

OpenBookMap is a volunteer project building a global, open atlas of used bookstores and — shelf by shelf — a searchable index of the books on their shelves. We lean on OpenStreetMap for shop locations, Overpass for live queries, and a small community of contributors who snap photos of shelves.

• Open data. Open source. Forever free to use.
• Respect for contributors: your photos, your credit.
• No tracking, no ads, no surveillance.
• Progressive enhancement. Works on slow networks. No infinite spinners.
• Built in the OSM tradition — modest, legible, maintainable by one person.

What we collect. Aggregate page-view counts via GoatCounter, a cookieless, privacy-respecting analytics service. No IP addresses are stored. Users with Do-Not-Track enabled are never counted.

What we do not collect. No cookies, no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting, no advertising identifiers.

Account data. If you sign in, we store your email address (for login) and a profile row with an optional username and bio. You can delete your account at any time — email adam@openbookmap.org.

Contributed content. Photos are released under CC-BY-SA 4.0, credited to your account. Book-title metadata is released under ODbL-compatible terms. You can delete your own contributions at any time from the Me page.

Code: MIT. Shop locations: derived from OpenStreetMap, ODbL. User-contributed photos: CC-BY-SA 4.0. Repository: github.com/tautme/openbookmap.