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OpenStreetMap

You're reading from   OpenStreetMap Once you‚Äôve learnt OpenStreetMap using this book you‚Äôll be your own cartographer, creating whatever maps you wish easily and accurately, for business or leisure. Best of all there are none of the usual restrictions on use.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847197504
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

OpenStreetMap
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
1. Making a Free, Editable Map of the World FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting started at openstreetmap.org 3. Gathering Data using GPS 4. How OpenStreetMap Records Geographical Features 5. OpenStreetMap's Editing Applications 6. Mapping and Editing Techniques 7. Checking OpenStreetMap Data for Problems 8. Producing Customised Maps 9. Getting Raw OpenStreetMap Data 10. Manipulating OpenStreetMap Data using Osmosis 11. OpenStreetMap's Future Index

Summary


We've learned a lot in this chapter:

  • How to draw features based on GPS traces

  • How to tag them and how to find which tags to use:

    • Tagging presets in the editors

    • Documented tags in the wiki

  • How to find tags that mappers have used, but not documented

Although we've used the most popular editing applications, others do exist, but the mapping techniques we've seen will apply to all OpenStreetMap editors to a large extent. They're the techniques and tools you'll use in whichever editor you use—even the ones that haven't been developed yet—and the methods won't change even if the precise tags used for any type of feature change.

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