Development of a server to manage a customised local version of OpenStreetMap

in Ireland

Department of Computer ScienceNational University of Ireland Maynooth

Błażej Ciepłuch bciepluch@cs.nuim.ie

Jianghua Zheng jianghua.zheng@nuim.ie

Peter Mooney peter.mooney@nuim.ie

Adam Winstanley adam.winstanley@nuim.ie

Overview

Projects in our group using Openstreetmap

Collection and import of data into OSM database

A web application to use the custom tiles with our additional data

Why we chose OpenStreetMap ?

Haptic& IndoorNavigation

Ricky Jacob

Bus Tracking

Bashir ShalikSimplification of

Complex Polygons

Fangli Ying

Pedestrian Navigation

Jinghua Zheng

Visualisation of Enviromental Data

Common Platform OSM

Błażej Ciepłuch

Haptic& IndoorNavigation

Ricky Jacob

Topology & Geometry Analysys

Padraig Corcoran

Open Access toGeospatial data

Peter Mooney

Research Objectives

First steps in building framework for open access to enviromental data ( with Irish EPA )

Particular emphasis on delivery to Location Based Services and also visualisation

Assist in growing OSM usage in Ireland

Creation of Maynooth map

How do we get OSM data for our project ?

Cloudmade Download webpagehttp://downloads.cloudmade.com/

Geofabrik Download webpagehttp://download.geofabrik.de/

OR

Our own Postgis OSMServer

OSM XML OSM XML

Adding our own spatial data to our OSM database

Our own Postgis OSMServer

Irish Enviromental Protection Agencyhttp://www.epa.ie

Tiles generated with Mapnik - Enviromental data

Waste Water Treatment Plants

Air Quality Stations

EPA Licensed facilities

XML Style file and result of redendering

EPA Licensed facilities around Dublin

More detailed Irish Language Map of Maynooth

Local OSM tiles for Interiors of Buildings

Our own Postgis OSMServer

Mapnik Map Redender

Different Outputs from Server

SetsOf Tiles

Different Outputs for EPA data KML file RAW data in XML WMS server SHP file Possibility to open in QGIS

Local Tiles

OSM offers our research work access to spatial data for Ireland

Spatial data is still very expensive to purchase in Ireland

Google Maps and Bing Maps have very sporadic coverage - poor in some rural areas

Difficult to access government and national datasets

Overlay of OSM data in Ireland on Bing and Google Maps

Overlay of OSM data in Ireland on Bing and Google Maps

There are examples of urban locations where OSM has been not surveyed and Google/Bing is better

Drogheda, Co. Louth Ireland (population 30,000)

Extended local OSM database (including enviromental data as a example)

Gain a better understanding of OSM process from data collection to display

Store once – use many times

Contribution of this Research