OpenStreetMap:real data, real uses

Steve Chilton

Overview

• A very quick review of the use of data from the OpenStreetMap project (OSM)

• Some of these are on display in some form in the exhibition area

• If you want contact details for any of these examples please just ask me

OSM coverageGoogle v OSM

OSM’s central London detail

Road network in Western Europe

Web maps

Dame Alice Owen’s School

Web maps

Paul Jaggard’s village website - Thornbury, Glos

Printed maps

Cycle map of Kentmere – proof of concept (Inkscape)

Printed maps

Richard Fairhurst’s canal map – work in progress (Illustrator)

Campaigning mapsDavid Earl’s Cambridge Cycling Campaign maps

Campaigning maps

Tom Chance’s Green maps

http://cf.acrewoods.net/ethical_map_centre

Commercial webservice maps

Nestoria’s house-selling site – IoW

Sean Phelan (Head of Multimap) – “likely to include OSM data very soon”

OSM mashed-up

Nick Whitelegg’s Freemap (countryside)

http://www.free-map.org.uk/freemap/index.php

OSM mashed-upAndy Allan’s NCN mapping site (work in progress)