OpenStreetMap: The Wikipedia of Maps

Harry Wood OpenStreetMap : The Wikipedia of Maps

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

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)

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

Melbourne

Moscow

Santiago

Cape Town

Chennai

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

OpenStreetMap: The Wikipedia of Maps

by Harry Wood on Oct 08, 2009

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