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OSM 2008: A Year of Edits

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• published: 22 Dec 2008
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An animation showing edits to the www.OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official data. OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in 2008 compared to 2007. During the year, edits were made by some 20,000 individuals and there were bulk imports of data for many places, including the USA, India, Italy and Belarus which are clearly visible in the animation. (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources) This animation was produced by www.itoworld.com. It is licensed CC-BY-SA and can also be downloaded if you are logged-in. Various stills are available from http://www.flickr.com/groups/itomedia/pool/. The music is 'Open Electro' by Vincent Girès' http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/silence and can be downloaded from http://www.archive.org/details/silence-silence. ITO World provide free online support software for OpenStreetMap (http://www.itoworld.com/static/osmmapper) and also provide online mapping services to organisations and individuals. Developed with support from ideasintransit.org.

OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2012

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• published: 27 Dec 2012
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This video shows all edits made to the OpenStreetMap project in 2012. OpenStreetMap is a free geographic database that anyone can edit; it's like the wikipedia of mapping data. This animation shows all additions and modifications of nodes (flashes) and cumulative edits (fading to purple) in 2012. Additional visualisations are the redaction bot's work (flying away yellow spheres) and the shift to ODbL (green flash). It gives a good overview of the effort that 1000s of contributors put in to make OpenStreetMap the best source of mapping data. This animation has been made by Derick Rethans entirely out of free and open source software. The added data is parsed and rendered by PHP and its extension, and the mapping and animation itself with POV-Ray. It's licensed under a Creative Commons license.