Presentation I gave at the Denver OpenStreetMap meetup in June 2011. A bit of something for everyone - some intro slides for newbies and assorted examples of (mainly) new and interesting applications, data usage and development tools.

1. WHAT’S NEW IN
OPENSTREETMAP
Peter Batty
Ubisense
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2. CONTRIBUTORS
Mike Dolbow Steve Chilton Bernie Connors Jens Winbladh
St Paul, MN UK New Brunswick, Canada Kolding, Denmark
Richard Fairhurst
UK
Josh Doe
Kate Chapman
aka @wonderchook
Washington, DC
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3. INTRO TO OSM
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4. What is OpenStreetMap?
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5. WHY BOTHER?
As a mapper / user As a developer
It’s fun!! It’s free!!
Map what you want Access to vector data
It’s useful Download to mobile
Faster corrections devices
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6. December 3, 2007
Google OpenStreetMap
July 7, 2009
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7. Denver, CO Denver, CO
USA USA
“Mousetrap” junction
of I-25 and I-70
Cape Royal
Grand Canyon, AZ Cropston
USA England
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9. 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
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10. 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)
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11. Video at http://vimeo.com/2598878
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12. DATA CREATION
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13. Editing with
Potlatch 2
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14. Straighten
Circle
Square
Parallel
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17. http://frontdoor.cloudapp.net/
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18. Conflation tool for JOSM
Josh Doe
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20. ArcGIS Editor for OSM?
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21. HUMANITARIAN OSM TEAM
(HOT)
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22. January 31, 2009
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23. Haiti - January 12, 2010
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24. Haiti - January 14, 2010
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25. Haiti - January 26, 2010
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26. Damage Assessment
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27. 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.
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28. 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
them to collect some more data for the risk models.
Kate Chapman It turns out the attributes we are interested in also
Executive Director of HOT can feed into the poverty analysis so they are really
excited about it.
New HOT project in Indonesia
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29. Kampung Bali
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31. Correcting Information
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37. ROUTING
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38. http://routingdemo.geofabrik.de/
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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
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40. http://bit.ly/multimodaltripplanner
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41. http://opentripplanner.org/
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42. “a good puzzle would
be to cross Dublin
without passing a pub”
James Joyce
Ulysses
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43. http://bit.ly/dublinpubs
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44. APPLICATIONS
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55. DEVELOPMENT
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56. 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/
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57. http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/
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