diff --git a/miscsrc/BBBikeOsmUtil.pm b/miscsrc/BBBikeOsmUtil.pm
index bfc111a199..646cecd3e1 100644
--- a/miscsrc/BBBikeOsmUtil.pm
+++ b/miscsrc/BBBikeOsmUtil.pm
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@ my $ltlnqr = qr{([-+]?\d+(?:\.\d+)?)};
 my $osm_download_file_qr       = qr{/download_$ltlnqr,$ltlnqr,$ltlnqr,$ltlnqr\.osm(?:\.gz|\.bz2)?$};
 
 use vars qw($OSM_API_URL $OVERPASS_API_URL);
-$OSM_API_URL = "http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6";
+$OSM_API_URL = "https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6";
 #$OVERPASS_API_URL = "http://overpass.osm.rambler.ru/cgi/interpreter"; # feels slower than the .de server (2013-11)
-$OVERPASS_API_URL = "http://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter"; # quick, but compresses only sometimes
+$OVERPASS_API_URL = "https://overpass-api.de/api/interpreter"; # quick, but compresses only sometimes
 #$OVERPASS_API_URL = "http://api.openstreetmap.fr/oapi/interpreter"; # compresses always # was broken in 2015-12 for a couple of days; truncated downloads (2018-02)
 
 use vars qw($MERKAARTOR_MAS_BASE $MERKAARTOR_MAS $ALLICONS_QRC $USE_MERKAARTOR_ICONS %ICON_NAME_TO_PHOTO);
@@ -1001,8 +1001,7 @@ sub cleanup_photos {
 
 # TODO:
 # support for main::show_info to show way xml and history xml:
-#  GET http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/22495210/history
-#  GET http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/way/22495210
+# maybe it would be enough to run osmhistory
 
 # Osm Menu in SRTShortcuts should be created here and changed to the
 # following layout:
diff --git a/miscsrc/bbbike.el b/miscsrc/bbbike.el
index 2d34f9ab32..c9a6c57ee0 100644
--- a/miscsrc/bbbike.el
+++ b/miscsrc/bbbike.el
@@ -928,12 +928,12 @@
   )
 
 (defun bbbike--get-osm-elem-version-perl (elemtype elemid)
-  (let* ((url (concat "https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/" elemtype "/" elemid))
+  (let* ((url (concat "https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/" elemtype "/" elemid))
 	 (elemversion (shell-command-to-string (concat bbbike-perl-modern-executable " -MLWP::UserAgent -MXML::LibXML -e 'my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(timeout => 10); my $xml = $ua->get(shift)->decoded_content; print XML::LibXML->load_xml(string => $xml)->documentElement->findvalue(q{/osm/" elemtype "/@version})' " url))))
     elemversion))
 
 (defun bbbike--get-osm-elem-version-elisp (elemtype elemid)
-  (let* ((url (format "https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/%s/%s" elemtype elemid))
+  (let* ((url (format "https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/%s/%s" elemtype elemid))
          (buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url))
          (content (with-current-buffer buffer
                     (goto-char (point-min))
diff --git a/miscsrc/osm2bbd b/miscsrc/osm2bbd
index debe4cbb1a..d1560d710f 100755
--- a/miscsrc/osm2bbd
+++ b/miscsrc/osm2bbd
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ Please specify one or more osm files. To download an osm file, you can use
 the script downloadosm (usually to be found in the same directory as this
 script) or raw wget, for example
 
-  wget -O filename.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=x0,y0,x1,y1
+  wget -O filename.osm https://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=x0,y0,x1,y1
 
 Note that the bbox must not be too large, otherwise you get a 400 bad request
 error.