Sightline – Shodan-style search for real-world infra using OSM Data

In plain words

Sightline is a search engine for real-world infrastructure that works like Shodan but for physical locations. Built on OpenStreetMap data, it lets users find telecom towers, power plants, data centers, and other facilities by location or using structured queries with type and operator filters. It uses the Overpass API for querying and Nominatim for geographic resolution, with deterministic parsing rather than AI inference.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

An OSINT search engine for mapping real-world infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data - ni5arga/sightline

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, I built *Sightline*, a Shodan-style search engine for *physical-world infrastructure*. Shodan makes it easy to explore exposed internet services. Sightline applies the same idea to the real world, using OpenStreetMap as the data source. You can search things like: * “telecom towers in karnataka” * “power…

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