“ OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the world made by people like you!”

“ 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 [email_address] 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.

cloudmade ito nestoria CadCorp 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” Database Renderer Viewer Editors API (Rails) Potlatch (Flash) JOSM (Java) ... Mapnik tiles@ home osmarender, pdfatlas, ... planet dump MySQL Slippy Map (Open Layers) “ Google” tiles “ Google” tiles

http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/35 <way id='7972254' timestamp='2007-09-24T12:36:29+01:00' user='chippy' visible='true'> <nd ref='59608510' /> <nd ref='59608509' /> <nd ref='59608516' /> <nd ref='59608515' /> <nd ref='59608514' /> <nd ref='59608513' /> <nd ref='59608512' /> <nd ref='59608511' /> <nd ref='59608510' /> <tag k='created_by' v='JOSM' /> <tag k='building' v='retail' /> <tag k='name' v='White Rose Shopping Centre' /> <tag k='amenity' v='shopping_centre' /> <tag k='note' v='huge building' /> </way> RESTful API

Trackpoints Nodes

Ways highway = residential name = Chestnut Lane oneway = true surface = flags highway = primary name = Otley Road ref = A660 Tags ! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features amenity = hospital name = Saint James emergency = yes POIs Areas leisure=nature_reserve

simple data format tagging for metadata standard map tiles

healthy ecosystem tools renderers editors routers applications

Potlatch

JOSM

Merkaartor

Mapnik

ORS

Many mobile apps

Maps on Garmin mkgmap

Freemap Slovakia & contours

Cycle Map

OpenPisteMap

Open Street Bugs

healthy ecosystem tools renderers editors routers applications

Ecology System Iteration Gets better & stronger

Community Mailing lists 40,000 + parties irc forum

Folksonomy But with standardised conventions. Voting mapping reality proposed adoption iteration

landuse=vineyard vs landuse=farm crop=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 India Africa

power bandwidth network software incompatibilities gps devices legal security Great benefits Free and open geodataset for development leap frogging awaiting commercial data Map is territory. Democracy voting districts see: 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 instance Offline, multimaster-syncs Benefits to OSM if adopted persistence standardisation Benefits to UN community ecology

Thanks! Tim Waters http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com [email_address]