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Find your workshop on the map

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Several thousand workshops are already in OHM, drawn from directories that already existed. If you run or use a makerspace, fab lab, or university workshop, there's a fair chance yours is one of them — without you having done anything.

This costs nothing and needs no account.

Look

Open the Facilities page. You'll see a map of every workshop OHM currently knows about, clustered so that a few thousand pins stay legible, plus filters down the side.

Narrow it down with:

  • Country, city, and region
  • Process — 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC machining, and so on
  • Source — whether a record came from OHM directly or from Maps of Making
  • Access type — how the space can be used

Filtering by country and then city is usually the fastest way to find a particular place.

Or just type the name. Search by name sits above the filters and matches on name, city, and country — so "lyon" finds a workshop whose own name doesn't mention it. It ignores accents, punctuation, and word order, because "fablab bordeaux" should find "Fablab Coh@bit IUT Bordeaux".

If you find yourself

Two things are probably true. Your entry exists, and it's thinner than it should be.

Most records come from directories that describe what a space is about — "digital fabrication", "electronics" — rather than what it can actually produce. That's enough to place a pin on a map, and not enough for OHM to work out whether you could build a particular design.

That gap is the single biggest limit on how useful OHM is right now. Closing it for your own workshop is described here.

If you don't find yourself

You can add your workshop directly. See list or enrich your facility.

Worth knowing first: if your space publishes its details through Maps of Making, that information lives at your own endpoint and is read from there. Adding a record in OHM is a separate thing from that, not a replacement for it, and it doesn't move anything away from you.

What you can't do

There's no "claim this workshop" button, and there deliberately never will be a global one. In a network where every instance keeps its own records, a worldwide ownership flag would be a fiction as soon as another instance disagreed.

What exists instead is attribution, domain verification, and vouching between peers. See what OHM is not.