Planet.gpx

Image visualising the GPX data. Click for a larger version including comments on some features of the data

planet.gpx is a new data download offered alongside planet.osm, this time with all the GPS data OpenStreetMap holds.

http://planet.openstreetmap.org/gps/

This is the collected GPS point data from the first seven and a half years of OpenStreetMap. It is a very large collection of points and it is very raw data. See Upload for information on how you can add to this.

• The compressed file is 7GBytes in size
• Uncompressed, the file is a 55GByte text file
• The data consists of coordinate pairs only, with no track file or meta data
• Points were contributed by thousands of users
• Points were contributed as thousands of distinct track files
• The data includes 2,770,233,904 points

Format of simple GPS dump

-900000000,1771882380
-900000000,1293757490
-891154290,1237501070
-877697750,1653442410
-871875000,1589069750
-871875000,1237507350
-843750000,1350007780
...

These are comma separated, raw lat / lon coordinates in a simple text format. To get the coordinates divide each number by 10⁷. The points are sorted by location, starting in the far southeast of the globe (90 S,180 E) and moving northwest.

Extracts

Regional extracts are here.

These are updated infrequently, but usually a couple of weeks behind the GPX Planet.

Visualisation

All points are rendered up to zoom 11 on this map.

And on this map they're aggregated into hexagons

This map shows GPS density corrected for population

Processing

Those scripts can be used to render GPX points on a map.

Regional extract are here.