Geospatial Dataset

OSM Data Model

3 Element Types

Key-Value Tags

Versioned Objects

Changesets

Node

key-value tags

Way

Relation

Object History

planet.openstreetmap.org - 42GB

ACT Extract - 6.5MB

OSM XML native format

Many tools to work with OSM data:

FME, OGR, PostGIS loader, Osmium

Global Community
of Contributors

• Many backgrounds

• Some work in IT or GIS, but many don't

• Age demographic is representative of the population
   

• Increasingly more commercial companies

  • Mapbox, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, Uber ...
     

• Starting to see more government involvement, but still in it's infancy

  • Statistics Canada, Transport for NSW ...

Where does collaboration happen?

talk-au mailing list
mapping parties/mapathons

maptime slack chat

changeset comments

Free and open licensing

ODbL, similar to CC BY-SA

OSMF Community Guidelines

Regional Cuts

Horizontal Layers

Geocoding

Produced Work

Substantial

Who's using OSM

Academic Research

Personal Use

+

many many more

Contributing to OpenStreetMap

Mobile apps for field based surveys

Imports