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OpenStreetMap

& (Open) PSI

Simon Poole, OpenStreetMap Foundation

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The OSM Community More than 1.6 Million Accounts, over 400'000 actual contributors

The OpenStreetMap Foundation UK non-profit that supports the project and formally licences and distributes the OSM data

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OpenStreetMap Data ODbL licensed

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●Mashups ●Reference ●Import (aka add to OSM)

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OUCH!

Wh

y d

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s it h

urt?

● Community

● Community

● Community

● Quality

● OSM data model

● Conflation

The Original Sin - TIGER US census generated street data imported 2007

Wh

at d

oe

sn

't wo

rk?

● Filling of empty space

● Data of questionable quality (for OSM

use)

● Too (pseudo-)detailed data

● Things that are at odds with the “on the

ground rule”

● Incompatible and home grown licences

● Not following the import guidelines

Wh

at c

an

wo

rk?

● Point data

● Small scale features (i.e. buildings)

● Administrative boundaries

● Things deemed important that can't be

surveyed

● Compatible, well known, licence (CC0,

PDDL ….)

● Following the guidelines

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● Important for door to door navigation

● Painful and slow to survey

● Useful even if not imported

● Availability in or for use in OSM levels

the competitive playing field

● Problem: has a (at least perceived)

monetary value

Exa

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le: A

dd

resse

s

● Global (but very US-centric) collection

project openaddresses.io

● The same for France BANO

● Switzerland SOAP

● Many more activities at national and

local level

● Large imports: Denmark 2009, NYC

2014, Netherlands 2014

BAG Addresses & Building Import

2014

Licence Working Group:

legal@osmfoundation.org

Import guidelines:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

Using OSM data:

http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Community_G

uidelines

OSM: http://openstreetmap.org/

OSMF: http://osmfoundation.org/

simon@osmfoundation.org

Map Data © OpenStreetMap Contributors OdbL 1.0

Cassini map style F. Rodrigo

no spaces

capitals

no 's'