www.openstreetmap.org
July 22nd, 2008
… www.openstreetmap.org is a pretty cool initiative, aiming at developing free, editable maps. Fundamental concepts include
- it is a community driven process
- the IPRs stay with the person who edits the (part of) the map
- you are not allowed to copy from existing material
- coverage of main locations is really good, e.g. most of Germany, in Austria mainly Vienna (with Linz coming up fast)
- openstreetmap provides an open concept, i.e., basically you are not editing streets (albeit the name is “streetmap”) but lines (with links), polygones and therefore shapes. You add “semantics” by providing tags
- various editors exist, e.g. a flash-based built in editor (by the name of Potlatch) but also external ones such as josm or OSM mapper, and others.
- potentially this could be threatening Navteq or Teleatlas …
Someone should implement an OSM navigating software!
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1. admin | July 25th, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Comment by myself:
Tested roadee (www.roadee.net) on day-to-day work (on my bike) now for over a month. Roadee is an OSM based-navigation tool on the iPhone (with voice output). It’s comparatively cheap (EUR 1.59 for the App and another 0.79 for “German Susi”) but it’s still very basic: often slow in loading maps (depending on 3G coverage, no chaching, …) and obviously due to the (many) errors in OSM maps also the routing is often not correct.
As good as it gets …
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