Harry Wood

OpenStreetMap : The Wikipedia of Maps

http://openstreetmap.org

Flash editor (the 'edit tab') is called Potlatch

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potlatch

Editors. Read/write to XML API

JOSM. The Java OpenStreetMap editor

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM

Nodes Ways

Tags

amenity=pubname=Hare & Hounds

highway=residentialname=Court Street

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Elements

Versioned elementsFine granularity

Changes grouped. bbox history tab

Gathering Map Data

Minor additions/corrections. Local knowledge

Create maps from scratch without copying

On the ground surveys

GPS

Photo by Gordon Jolyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/loopzilla/2465042085/

Names of streetsTypes of streets (trunk, residential, motorway)One-way restrictionsFootpaths, tracks, pedestrian, rivers, railwaysParks, woodland, industrial areas, cemeteriesPOI (pubs, cash machines, post offices, post boxes, bus stops, toilets, supermarkets, restaurants, kebab shops, monuments, hotels, picnic sites, barriers, light houses, piers, sports centres, petrol stations, playgrounds, cinemas, car parks, universities, bicycle parking, tourist information, etc etc etc

lot of detail.... lot of effort...

Community

Lot of people 170,000 registered users

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stats

Community

Increasing editing activity

Open Licensed Data

Existing maps rarely free

Google/Yahoo/Bing maps mashups are great...

Underlying access to data

Right use and re-distribute (inc. commercial use)

License details:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap_License

Large online community. Many hands

Openly editable (and easy)

Poor quality contributions?

Gradual refinement

Assume good faith

Monitoring and history features

....Remarkably it works!Sounds familiar?

Also Open Licensedand not-for-profit

Melbourne

Moscow

Santiago

Cape Town

Chennai

Milan

Paris

Karlsruhe

Berlin (zoo)

Edinburgh

Cambridge

OpenCycleMap.org

http://opencyclemap.org/

Relief maps

http://opencyclemap.org/

OpenPisteMap.org

http://openpistemap.org/

Hiking Map

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:OSMC_Reitkarte

Whitewater Map

http://www.forthcc.com/open-whitewater-maps

Bus map

http://www.pnvkarte.de/

CloudMade.com Style Editor

http://maps.cloudmade.com/editor

Get Involved!

openstreetmap.org

Harry Wood worked as an enterprise integration consultant for 8 years, but led a secret double-life as addicted contributer to wikipedia and other collaborative open content projects. He got involved in OpenStreetMap three years ago, as a mapper, wiki gardener, and developer. Since January this year (2009) he has worked for CloudMade, as a full time OpenStreetMap developer

CloudMade is a company providing products and services around OpenStreetMap.More information at http://cloudmade.com

These slides are (of course) freely re-usable under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 LicenseMap images taken from OpenStreetMap, CloudMade, OpenCycleMap, OpenPisteMap,OpenWhitewaterMap, HikingMap, More details of these projects and many more at wiki.openstreetmap.orgPhoto of photo mapping by Gordon Joly