OpenStreetMap - Faster, Cheaper, Better?

Presentation at #OpenDataIRL by Richard Cantwell (@ManAboutCouch)

OpenStreetMap is rapidly gaining traction in the Geo space. What is it? How does it compare to other sources of GeoData? How can you use it, and how can you help make it even better?

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1. OpenStreetMap: Faster? Cheaper? Better? Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant / Technical Manager www.gamma.ie richard.cantwell@gamma.ie @ManAboutCouch
2. Powerful Visualisation Tool
3. Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing. www.axismaps.com/typographic.php
4. Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing. www.axismaps.com/typographic.php
5. Cartography.. Spatial Data.. GIS.. all changing. www.axismaps.com/typographic.php
7. Mercator, World Map, 1569
8. tools.geofabrik.de/mc
9. tools.geofabrik.de/mc
10. Global Scale Commercial GeoData Suppliers
11. Acquisitions Completed Late 2007 / Early 2008
12. € 8,600,000,000 € 5,700,000,000 € 2,900,000,000 How Much?
13. “Database Creation and Delivery Costs” Q1 2008: $115,423,000 Annualised: $461,692,000 From last earnings report before Nokia acquisition
14. 1,100 Staff 6,000 Contractors http://read.bi/MrAi0j
15. € 25,000,000 Annual Report 2010 Annual Running Cost
16. £ 34,918 http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances/Income_2011 (Income: £ 58,869) Expenses 2011
17. ITO OpenStreetMap Year of Edits Video - 2011 https://vimeo.com/48984270
20. Vs www.creativecommons.org
21. www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow F. U. D. ..
22. tools.geofabrik.de/mc
23. Expensive Commercial Data isn't perfect either
24. Bad POI Data
25. “Many eyes make all bugs shallow” openstreetbugs.schokokeks.org/
26. Raw Vector Data available
28. maps.stamen.com/watercolor
29. Tile Data maps.stamen.com
30. izeize.com/openmaps
31. www.itoworld.com/map/main
32. www.itoworld.com/map/main
33. www.itoworld.com/map/main
34. maps.openstreetmap.ie
35. Recent Announcements of Switches to and Support for OSM
36. * SLA’s available from 3rd parties (€€). Self-hosting is cheap but can be complex. OpenStreetMap • API’s aimed at data editors • Limited API functionality • No ‘Service Level Agreements’* • ‘Viral’ nature of data licence • Focus on map data • ‘Warm Geography’ • Instant data updates, Sporadic • ‘Depth’ Issues (coverage, completeness) • Weak Metadata Other Data Providers: • API’s aimed at data consumers • Extensive API functionality • SLA’s available (but €€) • Derived data issues • Focus on services • ‘Cold Geography’ • Moderated update process, Consistent • ‘Width’ issues (limited featureset) • Expensive
37. opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary
38. Using OSM Data
39. Static Data APIs: xapi / OverPass overpass-api.de
41. Entire Planet downloadable (~500GB uncompressed) planet.openstreetmap.org
42. Processed data downloads & services www.geofabrik.de
43. download.geofabrik.de Including pre-configured Shapefiles (reduced featureset)
44. Tile Data
45. Tile Data Pyramid tile.openstreetmap.org/0/0/0.png tile.openstreetmap.org/10/494/331.png tile.openstreetmap.org/18/126530/84980.png
46. OpenStreetMap – Tile Usage wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tile_Disk_Usage OSM does NOT pre-render every tile. Pre-rendering all tiles would use around 54,000 GB of storage. The majority of tiles are never viewed. In fact just 1.79% have ever been viewed. This is because the majority of tiles are at zoom level 18 and the vast majority of those contain nothing of interest (they're entirely blue) By following an on-the-fly rendering approach we can avoid rendering these tiles unnecessarily. The tile view count column shows how many tiles have been produced on the OSM Tile server. Tile server disk usage: 1,272 GB used. (6 Jan 2012). (z0 to z15: 252 GB, z16 to z18: 1,020 GB)
47. Edit Store Render Consume Store Analyse
48. Using OSM data in GIS
51. Contributing to OSM
52. Contributing to OpenStreetMap Rule 1: Respect Copyright
53. 30cm Imagery available for tracing 2.7m RMSE
54. The impact of High Resolution imagery
55. wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bing
56. wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Scotland
57. wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide Contributing to OpenStreetMap
58. walking-papers.org GPS Mapping – on Paper
59. pushpinosm.org Mobile Apps – PushPinOSM - iOS
60. code.google.com/p/osmeditor4android/ Mobile Apps – Vespucci - Android
61. Contributing to OpenStreetMap Rule 1: Respect Copyright
62. OSM Wiki: wiki.openstreetmap.org OSM Help Forums: help.openstreetmap.org OSM-F Blog: blog.osmfoundation.org OpenGeoData Blog (OSM News): opengeodata.org Contacting Irish Mappers: Mailing List: talk-ie@openstreetmap.org IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #osm-ie or #osm (Twitter: @osm_ie) Contacting OSM Next OSM Meetup: Sat 8th December, 17.00 Bull & Castle, Christchurch
63. Faster Cheaper Better Richard Cantwell Senior GIS Consultant / Technical Manager www.gamma.ie richard.cantwell@gamma.ie @ManAboutCouch *