This presentation has been given to Master program students at Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University on 27th June 2014.

1. OpenStreetMap
Open. Street. Map.
Patipat Susumpow
OpendreamThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

2. What is mapping to you?

6. Open. Free. Collaborative.

7. • License-free
• Free to use
• Freedom to edit

13. Why we choose OpenStreetMap?

14. • Contribute your “hyper-local” knowledges to the world
• Create your “interest-based” geographical data
• Good-bye proprietary data
• GET SOME FRESH AIR

19. OpenStreetMap basic elements

20. Node Ways Relations

21. Node
• Latitude
• Longitude
• Node ID
• ATM, Post Office, Bar etc.

23. Ways

24. Ways
Open Ways Closed Ways Area

25. Ways
Open Ways
• Linear feature
• Does not share first and last node
• Many roads, streams, and railway lines
are open ways

26. Ways
Closed Ways
• Way that shares the first and the last
node
• Roundabouts, circular walk ways

28. Ways
Area
• Enclosed filled area
• Landuse, park, outline of a place

30. Relations
• Used to model logical or geographic
relations between objects
• To define routes, administration
boundaries

32. Node Ways Relations

33. Map features

34. • Using tags as key = value to define map features
• building = university
• highway = motorway
• landuse = farm
• name = Chiang Mai University
• http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features

37. How to edit?

38. • Use built-in editor such as iD, Potlatch 2
• Use external editor such as JOSM, Merkaartor
• We’ll focus on iD and JOSM; Easiest ones

40. Demo

41. How to participate?

42. • Online!
• OpenSteetMap Editors; iD, JOSM
• iOS - Go Map!!, OSM Tracker, OpenMaps
• Android - OSMTracker, OSMDroid
• GPS device
• Offline!
• field-papers.org

43. Exercises

44. • Complete FVM-CMU’s buildings
• Complete roads, ways, walk ways
• Complete FVM-CMU’s amenities
• Use any tools of your choice, but come back with GPS coordinates
and GPX files 😁

45. Advanded OSM Editor

46. • It’s called JOSM (Java OpenStreetMap)
• It’s complicated, but powerful
• Allow offline edit
• Let’s install

47. https://josm.openstreetmap.de/

49. Let’s compare

53. Thank you 🙏