Sam Wilson's Website

T18: OpenStreetMap

Wikidata logo. Wikidata item Q936: OpenStreetMap — freely editable world geographic database
IRC channel
instance of
  • online database
  • geographical database
  • digital map
  • free software
  • online community
  • open content
founded by
  • Steve Coast
operator
  • OpenStreetMap Foundation
  • OpenStreetMap contributors
copyright license
  • Open Database License
  • Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic
logo image
  • Property type 'commonsMedia' not supported yet.
  • Property type 'commonsMedia' not supported yet.
Commons category
  • OpenStreetMap
official website
topic's main category
  • Category:OpenStreetMap
web feed URL
inception
  • +2004-07-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata property
  • Property type 'wikibase-property' not supported yet.
  • Property type 'wikibase-property' not supported yet.
  • Property type 'wikibase-property' not supported yet.
  • Property type 'wikibase-property' not supported yet.
  • Property type 'wikibase-property' not supported yet.
Commons gallery
  • OpenStreetMap
software quality assurance
  • continuous integration
Stack Exchange tag
topic's main template
  • Template:Openstreetmap
  • Template:OpenStreetMap
  • Template:OSM relation
image
  • Property type 'commonsMedia' not supported yet.
owned by
  • OpenStreetMap Foundation
hashtag
  • OpenStreetMap
  • OSM
Alexa rank
  • +6338
  • +6938
country
  • United Kingdom
has use
  • collaborative mapping
SPARQL endpoint
creator
  • Steve Coast
programming language
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
user manual URL
author
  • OpenStreetMap contributors
language of work or name
  • British English
uses
  • ground truth
used by
  • Overpass Turbo
  • Sophox
  • iD
  • JOSM
  • Nominatim
  • Vespucci
  • Wikimedia Maps
  • Name Suggestion Index
  • Potlatch
  • Mapbox
  • Apple Maps
  • Facebook
  • StreetComplete
  • Organic Maps
  • OsmAnd
  • Transit app
  • GraphHopper
member count
  • +5578939
  • +8334242
  • +8785310
award received
  • FSF Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit
location
  • United Kingdom
short name
  • OSM
OpenStreetMap tag or key
  • Tag:map_source=OpenStreetMap
copyright holder
  • OpenStreetMap contributors
mailing list archive
social media followers
  • +79766
  • +56304
  • +79025
copyright status
  • copyrighted
service status information URL
readable file format
  • OpenStreetMap Binary map data
  • OpenStreetMap O5m data
  • OpenStreetMap O5c data
  • Merkaartor Document
  • OSM XML
writable file format
  • OpenStreetMap Binary map data
  • OpenStreetMap O5m data
  • OpenStreetMap O5c data
  • OSM XML
product or material produced
  • geographic information
official forum URL
has part(s)
  • Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing
  • Geographic Names Information System
  • National Hydrography Dataset

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Authority Control:
— Freebase ID: /m/08f_0k — Library of Congress authority ID: no2011015016 n2011027061 — VIAF ID: 184588430 284657753 — Twitter username: openstreetmap — Facebook ID: OpenStreetMap — GitHub username: openstreetmap — lib.reviews ID: openstreetmap — GND ID: 1067339671 1095266551 — Quora topic ID: OpenStreetMap — File Format Wiki page ID: Open_Street_Map — Datahub page: openstreetmap osm — subreddit: openstreetmap — Framalibre ID: openstreetmap — Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 16993444v — National Library of Israel ID (old): 002136214 — NKCR AUT ID: pna2017938689 ph820630 — Open Hub ID: osm — Telegram username: OpenStreetMapOrg — Zhihu topic ID: 19670122 — OmegaWiki Defined Meaning: 866319 — data.gouv.fr organisation ID: openstreetmap — French Vikidia ID: OpenStreetMap — WorldCat Identities ID: lccn-n2011027061 — RegiowikiAT ID: 15786 — Open Library subject ID: openstreetmap openstreetmap_(project) — GitHub topic: osm openstreetmap — AlternativeTo software ID: openstreetmap — National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007604921605171 —

  1. Post 25990

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  2. Mapping in Shenton Park

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    The file that is attached to this post.

  3. OSM meetup in Shenton Park

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    The file that is attached to this post.

  4. Rottnest and metadata

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    It’s Tuesday morning after a long weekend and I’m back at my desk. It was a long long weekend for me, because I got to go to Rottnest on Thursday and Friday. Such a relaxing place! There is some great calmness in the small rolling grassy hills, and it feels amazing that one can be sitting on Vlamingh lookout within an hour of leaving home, and have a 360° view of that lovely little island.

    I’ve been trying to update the OSM map of Rottnest (as usual) and it’s getting closer and closer to some sort of ‘done’. Not that it ever will be of course, because things change, and the usual thing with OpenStreetMap is that the more you map the more you see needs to be mapped. But at least things like the walking trail relations are getting closer. There’s also some contention with some features: someone is adding features from 1941, and marking them as current. For example, way 1004828012 is an oval marked landuse=military, but that’s not correct. Actually, it could barely be called an oval any more (it’s a reasonably flat area of sand dunes now, mostly re-vegetated with grasses). I’ll keep reaching out to the editor and talking about the best way to sort it out.

    Rottnest is a great place to walk, and my new tracking map (which soon will have ten years of my walking on it) is slowly filling up with blue dots. I feel slightly silly for putting lots of coding effort into tracking myself while at the same time objecting strongly to Google’s products that want to do the same, but at least the philosophical stance makes sense to me and it is rather fun seeing the map. The indieweb ideal is that one owns one’s own data, and in my case that means I also own a bespoke and slightly wonky system of storing it.

  5. Social Mapping Sunday: Claremont

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  6. Post 25067

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  7. Post 25062

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    I’m never quite sure how to manage posting in different places. I sort of know the theory of posting here and then putting the same content elsewhere along with a backlink (or Posse, as it’s called), but so far it’s not feeling very natural. I think it might just be that I’ve not yet got a good design worked out for Twyne, but there’s definitely also a bit of fomo and wanting to be where other people are.

    Anyway, here’s a new post I made on my OSM user diary:

    https:/www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sam%20Wilson/diary/397894

  8. Post 25047

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  9. An edge of Bing's new high-res imagery

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    The file that is attached to this post.

  10. JOSM filter for Wikidata in OSM

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    My new favourite filter in JOSM: (wikidata=*) or child(type:relation wikidata=*) (inverted). It finds everything that’s linked to Wikidata, to make it easy to find things that still need to be linked.