Where the addresses come from

Every address is a real address point in OpenStreetMap: a building or a business that somebody mapped with a house number and a street. Each result links back to the map object it was taken from, so you can check it yourself. The type (residential, office and so on) comes from how the object is tagged.

Addresses are laid out using the postal formatting rules that Google maintains for its address forms (the same data behind Chrome's autofill), so the postcode, city and region land where that country's post office expects them. Postcodes are checked against the country's official pattern; where an object had none, the postcode of a neighbour on the same street or in the same town is used.

Coverage depends on how well a place is mapped. For each country the largest cities were sampled. Where OpenStreetMap has hardly any full addresses, addy falls back to real street names with a made-up house number, and says so on the card.

None of this is verified against a postal database, and the businesses shown are real businesses, so do not send them anything. It is meant for test data, demos and form fixtures.

Address data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). City list from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Formatting rules from libaddressinput. Snapshot taken August 2026.