21. What is this OpenStreetMap all
about?
•It is a project whose goal is to
build a free map of the entire
World in a collaborative way.
•It is a never-attempted-before-
experiment, the closest one being
Wikipedia
•A crazy enough idea...
22. OpenStreetMap history
• 9th August, 2004 - openstreetmap.org registered
• 5th-7th May, 2006 – Isle Of Wight workshop, the first
concentrated effort to map an area
• 4th December 2006 - Yahoo! aerial imagery retracing allowed
• September 2007 - TIGER data import for the US started
• 18th November, 2007 - 150 million GPS points and 100
million nodes
• 8th January 2008 - 20 million ways
• 13th January 2008 - 200 million nodes
• 5th January 2010 - 200,000 registered users
23. 250.000 users
OpenStreetMap 15.000 active / month
20.000 KM GPX/day
1.4 Billion GPS points
150GB of data raw
about 2TB if in SHP format
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