diff --git a/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.test.ts b/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.test.ts
index b462e5b..0e284e3 100644
--- a/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.test.ts
+++ b/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { describe, it, expect } from "vitest";
-import { buildQuery, parseResponse, deduplicateById, type Poi } from "./overpass.ts";
+import { buildQuery, parseResponse, deduplicateById, quantizeBbox, type Poi } from "./overpass.ts";
 import { poiCategories } from "@trails-cool/map-core";
 
 describe("buildQuery", () => {
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ describe("buildQuery", () => {
     const query = buildQuery(bbox, categories);
 
     expect(query).toContain("[out:json]");
-    expect(query).toContain("[bbox:52.5,13.3,52.6,13.5]");
+    expect(query).toContain("[bbox:52.500,13.300,52.600,13.500]");
     expect(query).toContain('amenity"="drinking_water"');
     expect(query).toContain("out center qt 100");
   });
@@ -22,6 +22,45 @@ describe("buildQuery", () => {
     expect(query).toContain("drinking_water");
     expect(query).toContain("camp_site");
   });
+
+  it("produces identical queries for near-identical viewports within one grid cell", () => {
+    const categories = poiCategories.filter((c) => c.id === "drinking_water");
+    const a = buildQuery(
+      { south: 52.5041, west: 13.3072, north: 52.5931, east: 13.4928 },
+      categories,
+    );
+    const b = buildQuery(
+      { south: 52.5039, west: 13.3078, north: 52.5925, east: 13.4921 },
+      categories,
+    );
+    expect(a).toBe(b);
+  });
+
+  it("expands the bbox outward so the original viewport is always covered", () => {
+    const categories = poiCategories.filter((c) => c.id === "drinking_water");
+    const query = buildQuery(
+      { south: 52.5041, west: 13.3072, north: 52.5931, east: 13.4928 },
+      categories,
+    );
+    expect(query).toContain("[bbox:52.500,13.300,52.600,13.500]");
+  });
+});
+
+describe("quantizeBbox", () => {
+  it("snaps south and west down, north and east up", () => {
+    const q = quantizeBbox({ south: 52.5041, west: 13.3072, north: 52.5931, east: 13.4928 }, 0.01);
+    expect(q.south).toBeCloseTo(52.5, 10);
+    expect(q.west).toBeCloseTo(13.3, 10);
+    expect(q.north).toBeCloseTo(52.6, 10);
+    expect(q.east).toBeCloseTo(13.5, 10);
+  });
+
+  it("is idempotent on already-aligned coordinates", () => {
+    const bbox = { south: 52.5, west: 13.3, north: 52.6, east: 13.5 };
+    const q = quantizeBbox(bbox, 0.01);
+    expect(q.south).toBeCloseTo(52.5, 10);
+    expect(q.north).toBeCloseTo(52.6, 10);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("parseResponse", () => {
diff --git a/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.ts b/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.ts
index 6a14fbd..ac04eaa 100644
--- a/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.ts
+++ b/apps/planner/app/lib/overpass.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@ import type { PoiCategory } from "@trails-cool/map-core";
 
 const OVERPASS_PROXY = "/api/overpass";
 
+// Snap bbox coordinates to this grid before building the query so that two
+// users looking at nearly-identical viewports produce byte-identical queries
+// and therefore share a server-side cache entry. Expansion is outward
+// (south/west floor, north/east ceil) so the user's viewport is always
+// covered. ~0.01° ≈ 1 km at mid-latitudes.
+const BBOX_GRID_STEP = 0.01;
+
+// Decimals used when formatting the quantized bbox into the query string.
+// 3 decimals → 0.001° precision (~111 m) which is well below BBOX_GRID_STEP,
+// so the string is a stable representation of the quantized cell.
+const BBOX_DECIMALS = 3;
+
 export interface Poi {
   id: number;
   lat: number;
@@ -18,11 +30,31 @@ export interface BBox {
   east: number;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Quantize a bbox to the grid defined by `BBOX_GRID_STEP`, expanding outward
+ * so the original bbox is fully contained. Returns a new BBox whose
+ * coordinates are cell-aligned.
+ */
+export function quantizeBbox(bbox: BBox, step: number = BBOX_GRID_STEP): BBox {
+  return {
+    south: Math.floor(bbox.south / step) * step,
+    west: Math.floor(bbox.west / step) * step,
+    north: Math.ceil(bbox.north / step) * step,
+    east: Math.ceil(bbox.east / step) * step,
+  };
+}
+
 /**
  * Build an Overpass QL query combining all enabled categories into a union.
+ * The bbox is quantized to a fixed grid and formatted with a fixed number of
+ * decimals so near-identical viewports produce a byte-identical query — which
+ * the `/api/overpass` server-side cache keys on.
  */
 export function buildQuery(bbox: BBox, categories: PoiCategory[]): string {
-  const bboxStr = `${bbox.south},${bbox.west},${bbox.north},${bbox.east}`;
+  const q = quantizeBbox(bbox);
+  const bboxStr = [q.south, q.west, q.north, q.east]
+    .map((n) => n.toFixed(BBOX_DECIMALS))
+    .join(",");
   const unions = categories.map((c) => c.query).join("");
   return `[out:json][timeout:10][maxsize:1048576][bbox:${bboxStr}];(${unions});out center qt 100;`;
 }