OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a crowdsourced map of the world. It began in 2007 and has grown significantly since then, with over 18 million miles of roads mapped by over 700 contributors. OSM data quality has been found to be high enough for many uses. The Humanitarian OSM Team uses OSM for disaster response. OSM is used in many mobile applications and for routing. The future of OSM includes managing trust, licensing issues, and monetizing through mobile applications.

1. OPENSTREETMAP
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Peter Batty
Ubisense
@pmbatty

3. Crowdsourcing changes
everything!!!
(Scene from State of the Map 2011)

6. CONTRIBUTORS
Mike Dolbow Steve Chilton Bernie Connors Jens Winbladh
St Paul, MN UK New Brunswick, Canada Kolding, Denmark
Kate Chapman Richard Fairhurst Jonathan Raper Pascal Neis
aka @wonderchook UK UK Heidelberg, Germany
Washington, DC (or Bali?)

7. PAST

8. December 3, 2007
Google OpenStreetMap
July 7, 2009

10. What about quality?
Dr Muki Haklay of UCL
“OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product
that can be used for a wide range of activities”
Based on a detailed analysis
http://tinyurl.com/mukiosm

11. Database
2007 data
69 countries
11m miles (18m km) of roads
18m points of interest “Creating, maintaining and delivering a
People comprehensive, high quality map database is a
multi-step, labor-intensive process. We
Field force 700 currently employ over 270 employees in our
centralized production facility and a global
Central production 270 workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32
countries”
Technology 500
Total 3349
Financial
Revenue $853m (~€604m)
Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m)

12. WHY BOTHER?
As a mapper / user As a developer
It’s fun!! It’s free!!
Map what you want Access to vector data
Download to mobile devices
It’s useful Supported by many cool
Faster corrections development tools
Can use for asset tracking,
turn by turn directions, etc

13. PRESENT

17. Denver, CO Denver, CO
USA USA
“Mousetrap” junction
of I-25 and I-70
Cape Royal
Grand Canyon, AZ Cropston
USA England

18. DATA EDITING

19. Editing with
Potlatch 2

20. Straighten
Circle
Square
Parallel

23. HUMANITARIAN OSM TEAM
(HOT)

24. January 31, 2009

25. Haiti - January 12, 2010

26. Haiti - January 14, 2010

27. Haiti - January 26, 2010

28. Damage Assessment

29. I am currently in Port Au Prince
with the Fairfax County Urban
Search & Rescue Team (USA-1)
out of Fairfax, VA, USA. I wish
there was a way that I can express
to you properly how important
your OSM files were to us.

30. We are working with the Australia-Indonesia Facility
for Disaster Reduction to collect exposure data using
OpenStreetMap. We are working with 5 universities
to collect urban data and community facilitators in
rural areas to collect the information there. The goal
is to collect 3 attributes about each
building (number of floors, wall type and
roof type). That will then be fed into risk modeling
software.
Currently it is a three month pilot to determine the
feasibility of using OSM for this. With the rural
facilitators they are already doing poverty mapping
and we are just aiming to give them better tools in
order to improve what they are doing as well as get
Kate Chapman them to collect some more data for the risk models.
Executive Director of HOT
It turns out the attributes we are interested in also
can feed into the poverty analysis so they are really
excited about it.
New HOT project in Indonesia

31. Kampung Bali

33. Correcting Information

37. ROUTING

38. http://routingdemo.geofabrik.de/

39. Danish Working Environment
Authority (Arbejdstilsynet)
Android application called VIVI shows
inspectors route between sites. Chose
OSM because of licensing terms and
availability of open source software.
Runs on
Galaxy Tab

40. http://bit.ly/multimodaltripplanner

41. http://opentripplanner.org/

43. “a good puzzle would
be to cross Dublin
without passing a pub”
James Joyce
Ulysses

44. http://bit.ly/dublinpubs

45. APPLICATIONS

53. soft cities
softcities.net

56. DEVELOPMENT

57. JavaScript map rendering engine
Renders OSM data similarly to Mapnik
MapCSS support for map styling
Renders from lightweight GeoJSON-like tiles
Easy integration with Leaflet
http://kothic.org/js/

58. http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/

60. FUTURE

61. The more I learn, the more
I realize I don't know.
The more I realize I don't
know, the more I want to learn

62. evolvable systems
Only solutions that produce partial results 80-20
rule
when partially implemented can succeed
What is, is wrong
Orgel's Rule: "Evolution is cleverer than
you are"
Evolvable
Centrally designed
Clay Shirky, 1996
shirky.com/writings/evolve.html

63. (From my SOTM 2009 talk) Strategic Areas
for OSM
Managing Trust, Workflow and Validation
Licensing and Legal
Relationship with “the big guys”
Focus / Scope
Passive crowdsourcing Simplicity
Mobile Gamification

64. Licensing :(
Photo by Steve Punter - http://flic.kr/p/5qXFV9

65. Forks
CommonMap commonmap.info
SharedMap sharedmap.org
FreeOSM freeosm.org
USGS (internal)
OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org
http://bit.ly/osmforks
Photo by tonystl - http://flic.kr/p/mBNVh

66. (Monty Python video from Life of Brian here)
Longer (and uncensored) version at http://bit.ly/pythonsplitters

67. Public Domain?

68. Photo by gadl - http://flic.kr/p/8QnG3

69. Photo by stevebkennedy - http://flic.kr/p/99MtLv

72. Mobile applications

73. Photo by drewleavy - http://flic.kr/p/6BjDzL Photo by kylezoa - http://flic.kr/p/6sA5V9
Photo by D'Arcy Norman - http://flic.kr/p/8jYHTT
Different Goals

74. Photo by nerovivo - http://flic.kr/p/zWeRv Hide the complexity

77. Validation, Trust, Workflow

78. http://flic.kr/p/6GuX54
Pivoting to Monetize Mobile Hyperlocal
Gamification Social Gamification by Going Viral

79. Passive crowdsourcing

82. my iPhone location log
on Google Fusion Tables
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?
Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone
users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.

83. iPhone sales by quarter
Total sold by Q3 2011
128,964,000

84. ?

85. Photo by Helico - http://flic.kr/p/5EsRYP

86. Photo by tonystl - http://flic.kr/p/mBNVh

87. MAP

88. Peter Batty
peter.batty@ubisense.net
@pmbatty