Places & enrichment

Select a search result, map marker, or dropped pin to open the place panel. Use it to check the available address, opening hours, contacts, photos, source credits, and related services. Directions, Save, Nearby, and Share provide the next actions.

Details come from the selected source and enabled enrichment providers. Missing or outdated data can leave a partial card. Opening hours, ratings, and photos do not guarantee that a venue is currently open or accessible.

What a place card shows

The panel is organized into tabs across the top, with the most useful information up front on the Overview tab.

The header carries the place name, a category chip (restaurant, park, museum, airport, …), and a star rating and review count when reviews exist. If the place has photos, a hero image sits above the header with a View photos affordance that opens the full gallery. Cities and smaller administrative areas get a compact local-time and weather readout in the header instead of a photo.

The main action row provides:

Action	What it does
Directions	Sets this place as the destination and opens the directions panel
Save	Adds the place to one of your saved lists (sign-in required)
Nearby	Opens the Explore box centered on this place to find what's around it
Share	Copies a deep link to the place (uses the native share sheet where available)

The Overview tab

Overview is a stack of detail rows, each self-hiding when it has nothing to show:

• Address: the formatted street address, with a one-tap copy button.

  OpenMapX preserves available address parts and their origin when selecting between sources. Explicit address tags on the selected OSM object take precedence over inferred context; a nearby house number is never borrowed to complete a street-only address. Named premises and full-text addresses can be valid without a house number. When MapTiler supplies a direct OSM reference, place details use that object rather than a name-and-proximity match. Missing or conflicting data can still leave an address partial.

• Plus Code: an Open Location Code for the exact point, shortened against the nearest city and linking out to plus.codes.

• Opening hours: parsed from OpenStreetMap's opening_hours, shown as an open / closed status with the next change, and expandable to the full week schedule with today highlighted.

• Phone and Website: tap-to-call and click-through links, each copyable.

• Wikipedia: a link to the article when the place is linked to one.

• Add a label: tag the place as Home, Work, or a custom name for fast recall.

• Local time: the current wall clock at the place, its UTC offset, and how far ahead or behind you it is. Shown only when the place is in a different time zone and a different offset from yours, so a place across a border that keeps the same clock adds no row.

• Weather, Sunrise & sunset, and (on the coast) Tides and Marine weather: expandable readouts for the place's exact location.

Restaurants can show a menu link and external delivery services. An exact store link is used only when supported matching succeeds; otherwise a provider search can open for the restaurant and location. Check the destination before ordering.

Hotels can show comparison links and a Prices tab. A configured live-rate provider can add a nightly-rate result; otherwise the feature provides links. Availability, price, ordering, and booking belong to the external service. Affiliate configuration can affect the outgoing link.

Applicable places can also show transit departures, charging connectors, airport information, harbor facilities, weather, and air quality. The air-quality request starts only when its section is expanded.

The Reviews tab

Reviews aggregates ratings and written reviews for the place and lets signed-in users write their own. The review store, signing key, and matching behavior are described on the Reviews page.

The Info tab

Info is the deeper reference view. It leads with a longer description (the Wikipedia summary when available, the Wikidata description otherwise), then a grid of About this place facts, structured attribute groups read from OpenStreetMap tags (accessibility, payment methods, service options, diet, internet access, recycling, and so on), and a list of external references: the place's IDs on Wikidata, OpenStreetMap, and other registries, each linking out. Every block credits its source inline.

How enrichment works

Enabled providers can add descriptions, facts, photos, and location readouts. A failed optional source can leave the rest of the card usable. Check the credits for the data that actually contributed; enabling a source does not mean it has information about every selected place.

Knowledge integrations

Wikipedia can supply an article summary and linked images. Wikidata adds structured facts and a fallback description. OSM Wikipedia and Wikidata references help identify the subject; a matching name alone is not proof of identity. Optional Overture enrichment can fill supported gaps. Sun/time calculations and weather or tide providers supply separate location readouts.

Photo integrations

The gallery can combine images referenced by OpenStreetMap with Wikimedia Commons, Flickr, Panoramax, and Mapillary, depending on configuration. Providers can match tags or search near the coordinates. A nearby photo need not depict the selected business. Check its source, caption, and capture information.

OSM image references receive priority; street-level photos follow editorial photos. Each photo keeps its own attribution. The gallery's original-source links contact the external site when opened.

Built-in provider metadata and image assets normally pass through the OpenMapX API. Other integrations, external links, or consented media can have a different privacy boundary. See Street-level imagery.

Configuring enrichment

Enrichment integrations are managed from the admin panel, the same way as any other integration. Enable only the sources you want; the place panel adapts to whatever is running. A few providers need credentials, such as a Flickr API key or Mapillary token, which live in the integration's config alongside its enabled toggle. The knowledge and Commons providers call public APIs and need no key.

Food-delivery and hotel link-outs have their own integration settings. Operators can select providers, add affiliate wrappers/IDs, and configure LiteAPI for live hotel rates. A link-out exposes the chosen search to the external site only after the user opens it; it is not a proxied provider API call.

For the provider and service model, see How it works.

Related features

• Search & autocomplete: how a place is found and resolved before the panel opens, including category and POI search.
• Saved places: the Save button's lists and labels, and exporting a list as GPX, GeoJSON, or KML.
• Directions: the Directions action drops you into route planning with this place as the destination.
• Public transit: the transit section of a place with linked stops, and stop detail panels.
• Reviews: the Reviews tab, ratings, and writing reviews.
• OpenStreetMap contributions: correcting a name, category, hours or contact detail on the underlying OpenStreetMap element from the place panel.
• Personal timeline: open a read-only day view from a connected Dawarich account. This is a separate view, not a place-card visit counter.
• Street-level imagery: the Mapillary and Panoramax viewer that the photo providers also feed.
• Mobility data: the data-source detail sections for EV charging, parking, and shared-mobility points.