osm in our commercial products

adding value with open data

my name is Coleman

geographer&

software developer

OSM is not just for “free” or “casual” products anymore

it’s suitable for commercial applications

the basic point

spatial networksa brief history

• founded in 2000

• commercial & business intelligence data collection

• building GIS data & map products

• developing mapping software

we make software

iOS

Android webapplications

open source, open data

products

fulcrummaptual maptual:kabul

a data source for apps

commercial

v.

open

what we need

low costflexiblecurrent

localized

problems with commercial data

quality & depthlow detail in non-urban areas

developing countries

restrictive licensingexpensive

OSM

Google Maps

so how does OSMhelp us?

why use it?

i <3 osm

osm.org/user/coleman

it’s customizable

i can make pretty maps!

flexibility

commercial sources have rigid usage restrictions

OSM lets us do what we need

primarily:take map data offline

beautiful cartography

#borders::line[zoom>=3] { line-width: 0.5; line-color: #cdcbc5; [zoom>3] { line-color: #8d8b8d; } [zoom>6] { line-width: 1; }}

dataset is humongous

nodes = 1.2 bilways = 107 mil

relations = 1 mil

!!

we can contribute

it’s accurate enough!

validation

commercial usage of osm proves it’s valuable

challenges?surely it’s not that simple...

nodes

waysrelations

changesetstags

it’s a learning experience

working with OSM data is not trivial

learning the data modelgetting familiar with databasesintegrating with your own apps

thanks for listening!

@colemanm@spatialnetworks