PublicArtExplorer
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Everyone
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About this app
With this app, your walk becomes an inspiring art tour: Find and explore outdoor artworks right in your area. Whether sculptures, monuments, murals, or installations – discover the diversity of public art that often goes unnoticed in everyday life. Whether at home or on the other side of the world.
Features
Find artworks near you:
The app shows you all outdoor artworks in your area on an interactive map. Let yourself be surprised by what there is to discover in your city or while travelling!
Details for each artwork:
Depending on how well the entries at your destination are maintained, you’ll receive background information, images of the artist, and—if available—links to further articles on Wikipedia or other open platforms.
Based on open data:
PublicArtExplorer leverages the strengths of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. All artworks and information come from these open, community-maintained sources. This way, you benefit from ever-growing and up-to-date data—while also supporting the open data movement.
Get involved and improve:
Do you know of an artwork that’s missing, or do you have additional information? Update OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia and help improve the data. Together, we can give public art the place it deserves!
Accessible and privacy-friendly:
This app is…
- easy to use
- requires no personal data to work
- contains no ads and no hidden trackers—in short, respects your privacy
Permissions:
Location permission is needed to show you artworks nearby,
Internet access permission is required to load maps and artworks
Why this app?
Art in public spaces is for everyone—but we often walk past it without noticing. This app brings information about these works to light, making art in everyday life visible and accessible. At the same time, it encourages active participation in open knowledge projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.
Become part of the OSM community! Every user can help expand and improve the database. In this way, the collection of artworks keeps growing— for you, for your city, for everyone!
Download the app now and discover outdoor art—right outside your door!
Features
Find artworks near you:
The app shows you all outdoor artworks in your area on an interactive map. Let yourself be surprised by what there is to discover in your city or while travelling!
Details for each artwork:
Depending on how well the entries at your destination are maintained, you’ll receive background information, images of the artist, and—if available—links to further articles on Wikipedia or other open platforms.
Based on open data:
PublicArtExplorer leverages the strengths of OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia. All artworks and information come from these open, community-maintained sources. This way, you benefit from ever-growing and up-to-date data—while also supporting the open data movement.
Get involved and improve:
Do you know of an artwork that’s missing, or do you have additional information? Update OpenStreetMap or Wikipedia and help improve the data. Together, we can give public art the place it deserves!
Accessible and privacy-friendly:
This app is…
- easy to use
- requires no personal data to work
- contains no ads and no hidden trackers—in short, respects your privacy
Permissions:
Location permission is needed to show you artworks nearby,
Internet access permission is required to load maps and artworks
Why this app?
Art in public spaces is for everyone—but we often walk past it without noticing. This app brings information about these works to light, making art in everyday life visible and accessible. At the same time, it encourages active participation in open knowledge projects like OpenStreetMap and Wikipedia.
Become part of the OSM community! Every user can help expand and improve the database. In this way, the collection of artworks keeps growing— for you, for your city, for everyone!
Download the app now and discover outdoor art—right outside your door!
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What’s new
### New
- Alert user if device goes offline
- Added clear-image-cache setting to clean out stale images
- Support for up to 5 images from Wikimedia category
### Fixed/Changed
- Improved network error messages to be more user friendly
- User location didn't get updated if lastLocation was used
- Fixed an error where sometimes artworks were found but not shown
- Alert user if device goes offline
- Added clear-image-cache setting to clean out stale images
- Support for up to 5 images from Wikimedia category
### Fixed/Changed
- Improved network error messages to be more user friendly
- User location didn't get updated if lastLocation was used
- Fixed an error where sometimes artworks were found but not shown
App support
About the developer
Thomas Zell
info@zell-mbc.com
Forststr. 9
88441 Mittelbiberach
Germany
+49 173 4106016