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Everything about OpenStreetMap
Collaborative map database
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a map database maintained by a community of volunteers via open collaboration. Contributors collect data from surveys, trace from aerial photo imagery or satellite imagery, and import from other freely licensed geodata sources. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: OpenStreetMapA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: OpenStreetMap-Based Autonomous Navigation for the Four Wheel-Legged Robot Via 3D-Lidar and CCD CameraInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Programming GPS and OpenStreetMap Applications with JavaThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street MapsCited 2,624 times
- Go sideways: ID (software)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Vector tilesA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street Maps
How Good is Volunteered Geographical Information? A Comparative Study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey Datasets
Quality Assessment of the French OpenStreetMap Dataset
Quality assessment for building footprints data on OpenStreetMap
A Comprehensive Framework for Intrinsic OpenStreetMap Quality Analysis
The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007–2011
A spatio-temporal analysis investigating completeness and inequalities of global urban building data in OpenStreetMap
Analyzing the Contributor Activity of a Volunteered Geographic Information Project — The Case of OpenStreetMap
🆕 Influential since 2022
OpenStreetMap-Based Autonomous Navigation for the Four Wheel-Legged Robot Via 3D-Lidar and CCD Camera
Quality of crowdsourced geospatial building information: A global assessment of OpenStreetMap attributes
Exploring the accuracy and completeness patterns of global land-cover/land-use data in OpenStreetMap
osrm: Interface Between R and the OpenStreetMap-Based Routing Service OSRM
Predicting building types using OpenStreetMap
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Programming GPS and OpenStreetMap Applications with JavaKristof Beiglböck · 2012
OpenStreetMap in GIScienceJamal Jokar Arsanjani, Alexander Zipf · 2015
OpenStreetMapFrederik Ramm, Jochen Topf · 2010- 📕Mastering PostGIS and OpenStreetMapRyan Lambert, Julie Lambert · 2022
Mapping and the Citizen SensorGiles Foody, Linda See · 2017
OpenStreetMapFrederik Ramm, Jochen Topf · 2008- 📕BaseCamp and Openstreetmap HandbuchHans-Henning Pabst · 2017
Das OpenStreetMap HandbuchWalter Immler · 2014
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
🔗 Related topics
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- OsmAnd OsmAnd (/ˈoʊsəmænd/; initially OpenStreetMap Android, now OpenStreetMap Automated Navigation Directions) is a free and open-source map and navigation app…
- OpenStreetMap Foundation The OpenStreetMap Foundation (abbreviated OSMF) is a British non-profit organisation whose aim is to support and enable the development of freely-reusable…
- JOSM JOSM (listen) (Java OpenStreetMap editor) is a free software desktop editing tool for OpenStreetMap geodata created in Java, originally developed by Immanuel…
- Panoramax Panoramax is a project to collect and display street-level imagery, implemented as free and open source software. It allows the crowdsourcing of images…
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