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- Countless websites, apps and publishers base their maps partly or entirely on OSM data. These include Facebook, Wikipedia, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple; outdoor-focused leisure companies such as Strava and Garmin; map publishers such as Michelin; map service providers such as Mapbox; and thousands of independent and hobbyist developers.
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Apr 1, 2024 · You should make your own judgement about the accuracy of our maps. Always use our maps in conjunction with your senses, official sources and your common sense. Maps Ready-made online maps. There are many specialized online-maps which use OpenStreetMap as data source. Some examples:
- Using OpenStreetMap Offline
The most basic way to use OpenStreetMap offline is to export...
- Map Examples
Cycle maps of the UK (2012) A map of the “Sortavala” highway...
- Using OpenStreetMap Offline
Apr 1, 2024 · Numerous third party online maps are based on OpenStreetMap data. You can also use maps without internet connection on desktop computers or mobile devices such as smartphones or even the Play Station Portable .
- How OSM Features Are Contributed and Tagged
- Benefits and Weaknesses of OSM
- Uses of OSM
- Crisis Response
- Providing A Presence For Unmapped Or Undermapped Areas
- Thematic Mapping For The Social Good
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To contribute a feature to OSM, you typically digitize a geometry (a point, line, or area) and then add descriptive attributes, or tags. For example, to tag a grocery store, you trace its building footprint and tag it with shop=supermarket. There's no restriction on the tags you can use, but the data is only useful to the degree that you tag things...
OSM is not the only crowdsourced VGI project, but it is one of the most well known. As such, it provides a useful exemplification of the pros and cons of crowdsourcing and VGI. Some of the main benefits of OSM include: 1. There is no cost to use the data. In some locales, OSM may be the only freely available source of high-resolution GIS vector dat...
The most basic use of OSM is to retrieve its map tiles as a background for other thematic layers. High-profile sites using OSM in this way include Foursquare, Craigslist, and Wikipedia. Some web developers switched to OSM as a basemap(link is external)after the Google Maps API introduced potential fees into its terms of service. From a technical pe...
OSM gained publicity as a disaster response aid in 2010 after the Haiti earthquake, as described in this PSU Geospatial Revolution video(link is external). Prior to this disaster, publicly available digital data for Haiti was sparse, and OSM was limited to major roads and a handful of other features. In the weeks following the earthquake, Internet ...
The efforts to rapidly assemble crisis mappers in Haiti and the Philippines are admirable, but the ideal situation would be to already have the OSM data on hand. These regions only needed the mapping because sufficient information hadn't been contributed in the first place. Lack of technical infrastructure, a shortage of human and monetary capital,...
One of the advantages of OSM is its flexibility to store any type of feature, given the many tags that already exist and the community-based tag proposal and voting process. In some cases, specialized thematic maps have been created around a subset of feature types. Examples of these include: 1. OpenCycleMap(link is external), specializing in drawi...
Graham, M. (2010). Neogeography and the palimpsests of place: Web 2.0 and the construction of a virtual earth.Tijdschrift Voor Economische En Sociale Geografie, 101(4), 422–436.Hagen, E. (2010). Putting Nairobi’s Slums on the Map. Development Outreach | World Bank Institute, 41 – 43.Hristova, D., Quattrone, G., Mashhadi, A., & Capra, L. (2013). The life of the party: Impact of social mapping in OpenStreetMap. In Proceedings of the AAAI International Conference on Weblogs and S...Perkins, C., & Dodge, M. (2008). The potential of user-generated cartography: a case study of the OpenStreetMap project and Mapchester mapping party. North West Geography, 8(1), 19–32.The OpenStreetMap website itself is an online map, geodata search engine and editor. OpenStreetMap was created by Steve Coast in response to the Ordnance Survey, the United Kingdom's national mapping agency, failing to release its data to the public under free licences in 2004.
OpenStreetMap can be used as a primary source for data visualisations as demonstrated by this German streetname analysis in Zeit Online. Your first stop might be Geofabrik for an extract of Great Britain ready to load into a Postgis database.
Mar 27, 2022 · OpenStreetMap Wiki. Welcome to OpenStreetMap, the project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world. We started it because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive, or unexpected ways.
OpenStreetMap. provides map data for thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware devices. OpenStreetMap is built by a community of mappers that contribute and maintain data about roads, trails, cafés, railway stations, and much more, all over the world.
