OpenStreetMapHow to contribute and Use

15 April 2010 @tim_waters

What is OpenStreetMap?

How to Use.

How to contribute to.

How to monitor and moderate changes.

How to use externally.

How it's changing things.

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Tools

ServicesOpen dataOpen dataOpen data

Open data

people!

people!

people!

people!

Coase's Penguin.

Fun / rewardingCommons based peer productionSmall pieces5 minsEasy to use these peices

Yochai Benkler ---->

240,000 users14,000 classed as active

OpenGeoData

vs. closed data.

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you...

then you win

then we all win

OS StreetviewMeridian2VectorMap DistrictBoundary Line1:50 000 Scale GazetteerMiniScaleCodePoint OpenStrategiLand-Form PANORAMA1:250 000 Scale Colour RasterOS Locator

http://www.flickr.com/photos/krislitman/493626935/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92wardsenatorfe/3126055165/

Corunna, Spain 

http://walking-papers.org/scan.php?id=cgqvsvtw

3 minuteshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0

THREE MINUTES

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidereal/17380004/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/grandgrrl/3416944066/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92wardsenatorfe/3126055165/

Reader & Writer

Others too!

Cadcorp

Manifold

http://www.flickr.com/photos/anonymous9000/2663311480/

Rss feeds of changesets

.shp

Buildings

Natural

Places

Points

Roads

Railways

Waterways

WMS, WFS, TILES

http://maxspeed.osm.lab.rfc822.org/

Mapnik.....OS OpenSpace + OSM

Other Use – for Humanitarian purposes - for crisis mapping

HAITI

What we did in Haiti changeddisaster response forever.

Jeffery Johnson

Satellite and aerial imagery was made available.

Volunteers marshalled that imagery and made it usable.

Volunteers traced the imagery into OSM.

Volunteers prepared extracts of OSM for reuse.

For the first time ever we now have a set of conditions where individuals from the comfort and safety of their own home can literally help other people save lives in adisaster zone by contributing to OSM & Ushahidi

Schuyler Erle

UN “Would have taken tens of thousands of pounds and years to do. OSM took 3 weeks.”

Tools

Services

Open dataOpen dataOpen data

Open data

And people.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_Opendata

http://OpenStreetMap.org

http://maps.nypl.orghttp://geothings.net

http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com

@tim_waters