Harry Wood OpenStreetMap : The Wikipedia of Maps

Editors. Read/write to XML API

Editors. Read/write to XML API

Nodes Ways Tags amenity=pub name=Hare & Hounds highway=residential name=Court Street

Versioned elements Fine granularity

Changes grouped. bbox history tab

Gathering Map Data Minor additions/corrections. Local knowledge Create maps from scratch without copying On the ground surveys GPS

Minor additions/corrections. Local knowledge

Create maps from scratch without copying

On the ground surveys

Names of streets Types of streets (trunk, residential, motorway) One-way restrictions Footpaths, tracks, pedestrian, rivers, railways Parks, woodland, industrial areas, cemeteries POI (pubs, cash machines, post offices, post boxes, bus stops, toilets, supermarkets, restaurants, kebab shops, monuments, hotels, picnic sites, barriers, light houses, piers, sports centres, petrol stations, playgrounds, cinemas, car parks, universities, bicycle parking, tourist information, etc etc etc lot of detail.... lot of effort...

Community Lot of people 170,000 registered users

Community Increasing editing activity

Open Licensed Data Existing maps rarely “free” Google/Yahoo/Bing maps mashups are great... Underlying access to data Right use and re-distribute (inc. commercial use)

Existing maps rarely “free”

Google/Yahoo/Bing maps mashups are great...

Underlying access to data

Right use and re-distribute (inc. commercial use)

Large online community. Many hands Openly editable (and easy) Poor quality contributions? Gradual refinement Assume good faith Monitoring and history features ....Remarkably it works! Sounds familiar? Also Open Licensed and not-for-profit

Large online community. Many hands

Openly editable (and easy)

Poor quality contributions?

Gradual refinement

Assume good faith

Monitoring and history features

Melbourne

Moscow

Santiago

Cape Town

Chennai

Milan

Paris

Karlsruhe

Berlin (zoo)

Edinburgh

Cambridge

OpenCycleMap.org

Relief maps

OpenPisteMap.org

Hiking Map

Whitewater Map

Bus map

CloudMade.com Style Editor

Get Involved! openstreetmap.org

Harry Wood worked as an enterprise integration consultant for 8 years, but led a secret double-life as addicted contributer to wikipedia and other collaborative open content projects. He got involved in OpenStreetMap three years ago, as a mapper, wiki gardener, and developer. Since January this year (2009) he has worked for CloudMade, as a full time OpenStreetMap developer CloudMade is a company providing products and services around OpenStreetMap. More information at http://cloudmade.com These slides are (of course) freely re-usable under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License Map images taken from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, OpenCycleMap, OpenPisteMap,OpenWhitewaterMap, HikingMap, More details of these projects and many more at wiki.openstreetmap.org Photo of photo mapping by Gordon Joly