Leeds Data Thing OpenStreetMap and Other Geo Visualization Stuff

1. OpenStreetMap
& Online Geo Viz.
Leeds Data Thing.
27 March 2013
Tim Waters
tim@topomancy.com
@tim_waters

2. Live OSM
http://live.openstreetmap.fr/

3. Haiti
http://vimeo.com/9182869
ito_haiti_berners_lee.mp4

4. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/788

5. What is OpenStreetMap?
A web project to create a free and open
map of the entire world

6. Fastest growing map
Animation
Skobbler – europe_osm_growth.mp4
http://vimeo.com/16146087

7. Open Data

8. Dude, we just use
Google.

9. The reasons not to...
Terms of Use
Copyright
Derived Works
No Data
OSM better in many areas

10. Dude, you can't trust
it

11. “Wikipedia”
Fix the data
Objectiveness
Quality Control

13. Leeds:
http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/?
zoom=12&lat=53.80479&lon=-1.57285&layers=BTT
RSS:
http://simon04.dev.openstreetmap.org/whodidit/scripts/
rss.php?bbox=-1.620225,53.753161,-
1.392945,53.846638

14. Statistics
Number of users 1,045,770
Number of GPS points 3,295,708,898
Number of nodes 1,788,120,111
Number of ways 171,187,609
Active users / month 17,478
Wikipedia:
Number of pages: 29,551,074
Number of articles: 4,173,959
Active users / month 135,706

15. How do people map?

16. Animation 1
Ito World – OSM Edits
2011
http://vimeo.com/48984270
2011_year_of_edits.mp4

17. Animation 2
Derick Rethans – OSM
Edits 2012
http://vimeo.com/56374742
2011_year_of_edits.mp4
This animation shows all additions and modifications of nodes (flashes)
and cumulative edits (fading to purple) in 2012.
Additional visualisations are the redaction bot's work (flying away yellow spheres)
and the shift to ODbL (green flash).

18. YOU CAN GET THE DATA

19. YOU CAN GET THE DATA
1) direct dump – planet (26G Compressed)
whole, day, hour, minute
2) API
i.e. OverPass
3) Extracts
Shapefile format (buildings, natural, place, rail, roads, water, points, landuse)

20. Overpass API

21. TagInfo
● http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/

27. Literally
More data than appears

29. More data than appears

30. Literally more data than appears
Cartography

32. Stamen - Watercolor
● http://maps.stamen.com/watercolor/#15/53.80
25/-1.5469

33. Stamen – Toner

34. Literally more data than appears
Custom Maps

41. H.O.T.
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is
a new initiative to apply the principles of open
source and open data sharing towards
humanitarian response and economic
development.

42. Other Geo Vis!

44. GeoCommons
● http://geocommons.com/maps/239033#

49. CartoDB

53. CartoDb Torque
USPO
Animation
● http://cartodb.github.com/torque/examples/usp
o.html

57. OpenStreetMap
& Online Geo Viz.
Leeds Data Thing.
27 March 2013
Tim Waters
tim@topomancy.com
@tim_waters

58. Links
http://vimeo.com/9182869 (haiti ito, tbl)
http://vimeo.com/48984270 (2011 ito)
http://vimeo.com/56374742 (2012 derek)
http://vimeo.com/16146087 (EU Skobbler)
http://live.openstreetmap.fr/
http://cartodb.github.com/torque/examples/uspo.html
http://geocommons.com/maps/239033#