A good place, and a reason to linger.
Your privacy
Oedi is built to be nosy about places, not about you. Here's the whole story, in plain terms.
No accounts, no tracking
You don't sign in, and there's nothing to sign up for. We don't set advertising cookies or build a profile of you.
What you type
When you search a suburb, street, or address, we send that text to the services that find you good spots (listed below). We cache the results for that placeso it's quicker next time — that's information about the place, not about you.
Your location
If you tap “Take me there,” your browser asks your permission and uses your location to open walking directions in your maps app. That happens on your device — your live location is never sent to us or stored by us.
Your IP address
We briefly process your IP address to keep the app from being abused (rate limiting), kept only as short-lived counters. We don't log it long-term or tie it to your searches.
Who your search is shared with
To do its job, Oedi passes your search — a place name or map coordinates — to a few specialist services, each seeing only what it needs: OpenStreetMap (Nominatim, Overpass) and Wikipedia for landmarks; Google Places for cafés and ratings; OpenRouteService for walking routes; Photon for address suggestions; CARTO for map tiles; and Anthropic (Claude) to write the little descriptions.
Analytics
We use Vercel's privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics to count page views in aggregate — no personal profiles, no cross-site tracking.
Questions or changes
Anything you'd like to ask? Email bentekindustries@gmail.com. We'll update this page if anything changes.
Last updated 3 July 2026.