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?
An editable map?
An editable database of points and lines
OpenStreetMap Data: Node
OpenStreetMap Data: Way
OpenStreetMap Data: Way
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openstreetmap.org, Amy Lee Walton (Mapbox Gallery), Stamen Designs
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OpenStreetMap is everywhere
..all of these companies
Craigslist
National Geographic
"Improve this Map"
If not this, then typically OSM
openstreetmap.org
- Navigate to openstreetmap.org
- Identify an area with which you are familiar (Hometown? Boulder? Favorite Vacation Spot? )
- Explore.
- 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
HOT
Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap
Team
hotosm.org
Haiti Earthquake 2010
2013 Typhoon Yolanda (Philippines)
Nepal Earthquake 2015
missingmaps.org/
OSM Data Analysis
Questions?
Comments?
Ponderings?
