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OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the world made by people like you!
About me
Tim Waters
Long time OpenStreetMap contributor & evangelist
Leeds UK
blog: http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com
latest: http:wrp.geothings.net
OSM in a nutshell
GPS + Wiki = OSM
animation
Why on earth?
Mapping data is not free
Full of mistakes, car centred
Mistakes cannot be corrected
Cannot re use or reprint
Coverage economically determined
Not free as in freedom
Change happens
inflexible
Katrina
From Times Atlas. Lake Chad
UK complete 1-2 years.
Yahoo allow use of imagery
OSM in Flickr.
cloudmadeitonestoriaCadCorp
Corporate users
Foundation
Conferences
Taking a leaf.
Tapping the crowd.
Map Maker from Google.
AND Map2.0
Donate data & free data
AND - netherlands
City of Merano
Tiger / Line
And more:
Sudan from UN,
Canada,
New Zealand,
Falklands
Other Sources
Yahoo allow use of imagery
Landsat
Landsat etc
http://www.openaerialmap.org/UAV / cessnas / kites / satellites
Data provenance
Or, just D.I.Y!
Mapping Parties Galore!
Case Study:
Mikel in Brighton
Mapping Party, September 2006
OSM Brighton, December 2006
Summer 2007
Today
Winter 2007
Today
1.0
His Process
Download existing data to GPS
Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle
Network Diagram
Upload Tracks
Draw Over Them
Tech
The OSM-Tool Chain
API(Rails)Potlatch(Flash)JOSM(Java)
Database
...
Renderer
Mapniktiles@home
osmarender,pdfatlas,...
planetdumpMySQLViewer
SlippyMap(OpenLayers)GoogletilesGoogletilesEditors
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/35
RESTful API
Trackpoints
Nodes
Ways
highway = residentialname = Chestnut Laneoneway = truesurface = flags
highway = primaryname = Otley Roadref = A660
Tags!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features
amenity = hospitalname = Saint Jamesemergency = yes
POIs
Areas
leisure=nature_reserve
simple data format
tagging for metadata
standard map tiles
healthy ecosystem
toolsrendererseditorsroutersapplications
Potlatch
JOSM
Merkaartor
Mapnik
ORS
Many mobile apps
Maps on Garminmkgmap
Freemap Slovakia & contours
Cycle Map
OpenPisteMap
Open Street Bugs
healthy ecosystem
toolsrendererseditorsroutersapplications
Ecology
System
Iteration
Gets better & stronger
Community
Mailing lists40,000 +partiesircforum
Folksonomy
But with standardised conventions.
Votingmapping realityproposedadoption
iteration
landuse=vineyard vslanduse=farmcrop=grapes
Edit War
Disputes
Route planning map for airline treads carefully
OSM way
Multiple representations of the world
Data is not the map
Localizable
History, Versioning
OSM in development
IndiaAfrica
powerbandwidthnetworksoftware incompatibilitiesgps devices legalsecurity
Great benefits
Free and open geodataset for developmentleap frogging awaiting commercial data
Map is territory. Democracyvoting districtssee: PPGIS
UNSDI & OSM
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features
http://www.unjlc.org/tools/UNSDI-T/UNSDIT_V2.0_Light_Structure_HTML.html
Work to map schema between the two
easier shapefile importing
local server instanceOffline, multimaster-syncs
Benefits to OSM if adoptedpersistencestandardisation
Benefits to UNcommunityecology
Thanks!
Tim Waters
http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com