OpenStreetMap

What it is and why it's important


townsendjennings.com/openstreetmap



Jennings Anderson
Nov 9, 2016

Map (noun)

Maps

Who uses them? Everyone!

Who needs them? Everyone!

Who makes them? Everyone

Static?

nytimes.com/2016/08/12/world/middleeast/google-palestine.html

A website: www.osm.org

A Community & Wiki: wiki.osm.org

A database:

By the Numbers

Open Geographic Data?

The Open Database License (ODbL)

An editable map?

An editable database of points and lines

OpenStreetMap Data: Node


  
  
  


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openstreetmap.org, Amy Lee Walton (Mapbox Gallery), Stamen Designs

monochome.com, MapOnShirt, MaptimeSLC

OpenStreetMap is everywhere

..all of these companies

(Mapbox Clients)

Craigslist

National Geographic

"Improve this Map"

If not this, then typically OSM

openstreetmap.org

  1. Navigate to openstreetmap.org
  2. Identify an area with which you are familiar (Hometown? Boulder? Favorite Vacation Spot? )
  3. Explore.
  4. Identify something that is incorrect, inaccurate, or missing?

Editing OpenStreetMap

OSM IN USE

Disaster Mapping

Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

January 10, 2010: 7.0M earthquake strikes Haiti

2010 Haiti Earthquake (wikipedia)

HOT

Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap
Team

hotosm.org

Haiti Earthquake 2010

2013 Typhoon Yolanda (Philippines)

Nepal Earthquake 2015

missingmaps.org/

OSM Data Analysis

Questions?
Comments?
Ponderings?