# Log nearby businesses from OpenStreetMap: n8n workflow template

> Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Google Sheets. 9 steps, 1 branch: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/workflow/log-nearby-businesses-from-openstreetmap (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

[Automation library](https://millionrounds.com/workflows) · [Data collection](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?category=Data+collection#library)

# Log nearby businesses from OpenStreetMap

Started by someone submitting a form, and works across Google Sheets. 9 steps, 1 branch: a working afternoon to understand properly.

Medium

[Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Flog-nearby-businesses-from-openstreetmap)

**9 steps** Medium: a working afternoon

**1** Branch: places the flow splits

**0** Loops or waits

**1** Service it connects to

## The flow

Starts it 1 Logic 5 Service 3

The steps in the order they run, from what starts it.

- 1 **Search request** Form trigger *Starts it*
- 2 **Settings** Set *Logic*
- 3 **Geocode location (Nominatim)** Http Request *Service*
- 4 **Location found?** If *Logic*
- 5 **Build Overpass query** Code *Logic*
- 6 **No matching location** No Op *Logic*
- 7 **Find businesses (Overpass)** Http Request *Service*
- 8 **Normalize businesses** Code *Logic*
- 9 **Append to results sheet** Google Sheets *Service*

## How it's built

- **Starts on:** Someone submitting a form
- **Steps:** 9, with 1 branch
- **Size:** Medium: a working afternoon
- **Connects to:** Google Sheets
- **Model:** None. This is plumbing, not judgement

## Questions

What does it need to run?

An n8n account, plus your own Google Sheets account. You connect your own accounts after importing it; none are included.

What starts it?

It starts on someone submitting a form.

Does it use AI?

No. Every step is fixed logic or a call to a service, so it does the same thing every time.

How long does it take to set up?

Plan an afternoon. 9 steps is enough that you should read each one before running it.

How do I import it?

Copy the workflow, open a new workflow in n8n and paste. The steps appear on the canvas, ready for your own accounts.

**Before you run it**

Nothing here has been tested by us. It is somebody's working automation, read and described from its own steps. Treat the connections it wants as a list of accounts it will touch, and read the 9 steps before you point it at anything that matters.

## Run it in n8n

- **Create your n8n account** Free to start. n8n is where the workflow runs. [Create an n8n account ↗](https://millionrounds.com/n8n)
- **Download the workflow** Free with a Millionrounds account. [Download free](https://millionrounds.com/login?next=%2Fapp%2Fworkflow%2Flog-nearby-businesses-from-openstreetmap)
- **Paste it into n8n** Open a new workflow in n8n and paste. Then connect your own accounts.

Stored with the author's traces removed: canvas notes, instance identifiers, saved credential names and any live document they had left behind.

## Connects to

Each opens the other workflows that use it.

[Google Sheets](https://millionrounds.com/workflows?service=Google+Sheets#library)

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