Research

For OSM school activities, see Education.

From a research perspective, OpenStreetMap is deservedly attracting a lot of attention from universities and similar institutions, and from academic scholars in 'geomatics', 'neogeography', 'volunteered geo-informations'. 'digital cartography', 'participatory geoinformatics' etc. OpenStreetMap is fascinating and vast in terms of scale and variety of the data we offer, the technology we build, and uses we find for the data. But most of all, we are a fascinating and vast community. Whether you're interested in studying the community itself, or working with the datasets, we hope you'll become a part of it and share your knowledge, extend the map, improve existing technologies, and explore new horizons.

To learn more about the project itself, the wiki offers a wealth of (sometimes a little disorganised) information. Get a quick overview at About. Dive into some technical details of current Development or if you prefer, take a look at some Books about OpenStreetMap.

Greetings from our community:

You might even think about to release your work under wikipedia:Open Access / upload data or joining Projects like Wikiversity or creating a Wikibook for your students?

Contact

You don't know where to start at this giant project? Feel free to contact somebody out of this list:

Country	Contact	via
Germany	user:!i!	see my wikipage

Ideas for students

OpenStreetMap has several open problems which would make good student projects. These are items that need researching and "longer-term" issues which could be worked on by students as a project separate from the the core open source development progress happening within the community.

• /Ideas
• /Marketplace - specific projects waiting for students

Contents 1 Contact 2 Ideas for students 3 Activities 3.1 Austria 3.1.1 Salzburg/Vienna 3.1.2 Schwechat 3.2 Bangladesh 3.2.1 Dhaka 3.3 Canada 3.3.1 Toronto 3.3.2 Québec 3.3.3 New Brunswick 3.4 Finland 3.4.1 Helsinki 3.5 France 3.6 Germany 3.6.1 Aachen 3.6.2 Berlin 3.6.3 Bonn 3.6.4 Bremen 3.6.5 Chemnitz 3.6.6 Darmstadt 3.6.7 Dresden 3.6.8 Erlangen 3.6.9 Freiburg 3.6.10 Hannover 3.6.11 Heidelberg 3.6.12 Karlsruhe 3.6.13 Kempten 3.6.14 Leipzig 3.6.15 München 3.6.16 Münster 3.6.17 Neubrandenburg 3.6.18 Osnabrück 3.6.19 Paderborn 3.6.20 Passau 3.6.21 Potsdam 3.6.22 Rostock 3.6.23 Saarbrücken 3.6.24 Steinfurt 3.6.25 Stuttgart 3.6.26 Tübingen 3.6.27 Wedel 3.7 Ireland 3.7.1 Maynooth 3.7.2 Dublin 3.8 Italy 3.8.1 Bari 3.9 Netherlands 3.9.1 Amsterdam 3.10 Singapore 3.11 Switzerland 3.11.1 Lausanne 3.11.2 Muttenz 3.11.3 Rapperswill 3.11.4 Zürich 3.12 UK 3.12.1 Bristol 3.12.2 Durham 3.12.3 London 3.12.4 Loughborough 3.12.5 Middlesex 3.12.6 Oxford 3.13 US 3.13.1 US Geological Survey 3.13.2 Delaware 3.13.3 Florida 3.13.4 Illlinois 3.13.5 Santa Barbara 3.13.6 Maryland 3.13.7 Washington 3.13.8 San Diego 4 See also

Activities

Below a list of universities and scientific institutions that are involved by different projects. This list is on scientific work only, please paste the content on a seperate page to keep it short and readable. This is for OSM related GIS projects only!

Further projects might be on the Google Summer of Code.
General OSM related publications can be found at OSM in the media or Category:Conferences

Austria

Salzburg/Vienna

• "OSMapTuner" - 03/2012, OSMapTuner
  An smartphone editor for manipulating tags in the wild

• "FEMroute" - Salzburg Research (Elisabeth Häusler, Renate Steinmann), TU Wien (Manuela Schmidt, Manuela Holzmayer) - 2009-2011, FEMroute-Website, Wiki
  The aim of FEMroute is to consider gender-relevant factors in location based services like route planners or navigation systems. OpenStreetMap is used to collect gender-related information within a test area.

• "ways2navigate" - Salzburg Research, TraffiCon, TU Wien, FACTUM, Walk-space - 2010-2011, Wiki
  Ways2navigate examines, which conditions and target groups are suitable for the presentation forms digital map, language and augmented reality technology in order to support pedestrians in an urban environment. OpenStreetMap is used as the database for the developed systems.

• "Mit GIS an der Grenze unterwegs" - [http:// Zentrum für GeoInformatik], Web - 2009, Wiki
  Zum Einsatz von OpenStreetMap-Daten und Open-Source-Tools zur Zertifizierung von Wanderwegen am Obergermanisch-Rätischen Limes

• "A System for Comparatative Analysis of OSM data by the Use of a CouchDB" - Markus Mayr - 2012
  A legal, open-sourced and easily distributable system for comparing the completeness of OSM POIs with user-selected datasets. This system will be realized completely within a CouchDB and outputs metadata about the users wich were involved in creating specific POIs.

Schwechat

CEIT ALANOVA:

• "AmauroMap" - Wolfgang Wasserburger
  a map for blind users

Bangladesh

Dhaka

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) Department of Computer Science and Engineering

• Please refer WikiProject Bangladesh

Canada

Toronto

University of Toronto

• "Vernacular mappings and the ethics of what comes next" J. Gerlach - 2010 - [1]

Québec

Centre for Topographic Information, Natural Resources Canada:

• "Community mapping and goverment mapping: potential collaboration?" A. Beaulieu, D. Bégina, D. Genest - 2008 - [2]

New Brunswick

University of New Brunswick:

• "Volunteered Geographic Information: The Nature and Motivation of Human Sensors" David J. Coleman, Yola Georgiadou, Jeff Labonte - 2009 - [3]

Finland

Helsinki

• "The social networks for volunteered geographic information and spatial data infrastructures" - Suvi Välimäki - 12/2010, [4]

France

Laboratoire COGIT de l'Institut Géographique National :

• "Quality Assessment of the French OpenStreetMap Dataset" Jean-François Girres, Guillaume Touya - 10/2010 - [5]

Germany

Aachen

RWTH Aachen

• "Implementierung eines Navis für E-Fahrzeuge - Auf Basis von OpenStreetMap Daten" - Dzenan Dzafic - 08/2011, [6]

Berlin

Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin:

• "Tourismus-Informationssystem als Web-GIS mit OpenStreetMap" - Thomas "moenk" Mönkemeier - 08/2011, [7]
  The OpenStreetMap gained in importance in the recent years. Beside streets and places, there are also stored “POI” (Points of Interest). This information is available to anyone and has sufficient quality to be used for a tourism information system. By using a free and open source software a simple solution is created that allows even small areas of tourism to inform tourists about the amenities in their region on the web. A Web-GIS allows presenting the information online and in a spatial context.
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Immelyn Domnick

Technische Universität Berlin:

• "Evaluierung der Datennutzbarkeit von OpenStreetMap-Daten für Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)" - Tom Müller - 12/2010, []
  Versand per Mail auf Anfrage an tom['AT']fjellsmug['DOT']com

• "OpenStreetMap For Traffic Simulation" - Michael Zilske, Andreas Neumann, Kai Nagel - 11/2011, [8]
  A workflow for generating multi-agent traffic simulation scenarios based on OpenStreetMap.

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin:

• "Design und Evaluation eines Offline-Kartendienstes auf der Grundlage von Openstreetmap unter Verwendung von Precachingverfahren" - Christian Otto - 12/2009, [9]
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Redlich

Freie Universität Berlin:

• "MoNoTrac: A Mobile Node Trace Generator" - Bastian Blywis, Felix Juraschek, Mesut Günes, Christian Graff, [10]

• "mapsforge: free mapping and navigation tools" - Jürgen Broß, Thilo Mühlberg, Heinz Schweppe, [11] [12]
  The overall goal of mapsforge is to provide a free and open toolbox that enables the community to easily create new OpenStreetMap-based applications. Provided tools and APIs include solutions for map rendering, route planning and navigation, POI indexing and search, map overlays and more.

• "xappy.js - XAPI JavaScript implementation" - Philipp Borgers - 05/2011, xappy.js, [13]
  A reimplementation of the XAPI in JavaScript with PostGIS backend

Bonn

Universität Bonn:

Main staff Prof. Zipf and Pascal Neis, A. Schilling, M. Auer et al. moved to Heidelberg! See below: #Heidelberg

• "Abbildung von Straßendaten für Qualitätsuntersuchungen - Ein Vergleich von OpenStreetMap mit Navteq" Ina Ludwig - 2010 - [14], [15]

• "Developing SDIs Based on Volunteered Geographic Information" Alexander Zipf - 2009 -

• "Verbesserung der Datengrundlage für die Routenplanung im Bereich landwirtschaftlicher Logistik auf Basis offener Geodaten" Johannes Lauer, Alexander Zipf - 2009 - [16]

• "Virtuelle 3D Stadt- und Landschaftsmodelle auf Basis freier Geodaten" M. Over, A. Schilling, S. Neubauer, S. Lanig, A. Zipf - 2009 - [17]

• "OpenStreetMap 3D Germany und Stadtmodell NRW3D: Erfahrungen bei der Realisierung landesweiter interoperabler 3D-Stadt- und Landschaftsmodelle im Internet auf Basis amtlicher und Nutzer-generierten Geodaten" N. Neubauer,M. Over, A. Schilling, R. Kulawik, Pascal Neis, A. Zipf - 2009 - [18]

• "Interoperable Location Based Services for 3D cities on the Web using user generated content from OpenStreetMap" Schilling A., Over M., Neubauer S., Neis P., Walenciak , Zipf, A. - 2009 - [19]

• "LBS 2.0 - Realisierung von Location Based Services mit user-generated, collaborative erhobenen freien Geodata" Pascal Neis, Alexander Zipf - 2008 - ISSN 1867-5433 [20]

• "New Applications based on Collaborative Geodata - the Case of Routing" S. Schmitz , Pascal Neis, Alexander Zipf - 2008 - [21]

• "Integrating Terrain Surface and Street Network for 3D Routing" Schilling, A.; Lanig, S.; Neis, P.; Zipf, A. - 2008 - [22]

• "Zur Kopplung von OpenSource, OpenLS und OpenStreetMaps in OpenRouteService.org" Neis, P., Zipf, A. - 2008 - [23]

• "OpenStreetMap – Grundlagen und Potentiale der freien Wiki-Weltkarte" Neis, P., Zipf, A. - 2008 - [24]

Bremen

University of Bremen:

• "Segmentation of OpenStreetMap Data - Generating, Merging, and Distributing Tiles" - Jan Behrens - Sep. 2011, [25], OSMT
  The goal of the thesis is to evaluate existing splitting and merging tools for OSM data and derive an implementation of a new tool capable of tiling the world into stand-alone (every tile contains the relevant data) and mergeable (seamless merging of neighbouring tiles must be possible) chunks. Mechanisms for peer-to-peer distribution of the tiles shall be discussed. Inspired by this project idea.
  Tutor: Frieder Nake

University of Bremen, DFKI Bremen

• "OSMonto - An Ontology of OpenStreetMap tags" - Mihai Codescu, Gregor Horsinka, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski, Rafaela Rau - Jul. 2011, [26]
  OSMonto is an ontology of OpenStreetMap tags, created with the purpose to ease maintenance and overview of existing tags and to allow enriching the semantics of tags by relating them to other ontologies.

Chemnitz

TU Chemnitz:

•  - Falko Thomale, [27]
  div. projects

Darmstadt

Hochschule Darmstadt:

• "Ansätze zur präziseren Positionsbestimmung mit GPS-Empfängern aus dem Niedrigpreissegment und deren prototypische Anwendung in einem automatisierten, mobilen Kartographie-Szenario" - Tobias Eckerth - 2010-03-29, [28]
  Describes a method and proof-of-concept for automatically recording geometries and uploading them to OpenStreetMap. Has a well-written and illustrated introduction to geodesy, cartography, and OSM.
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Joachim Wietzke

Dresden

TU Dresden:

• "Fusion von Geodaten unterschiedlicher Quellen in Geodateninfrastrukturen am Beispiel von ATKIS und OpenStreetMap" - Stefan Wiemann - 11/2009, [29]
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Lars Bernard, Prof. Dr. Dirk Burghardt

• "Integration von Generalisierungsfunktionalität für die automatische Ableitung verschiedener Levels of Detail von OpenStreetMap Webkarten" "(Integration of generalization functionality to derivate automatic different levels of detail in OpenStreetMap webmaps)" - Ralf Klammer - 06/2011, Link
  TU Dresden - Institut für Kartographie
  Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dirk Burghardt, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Stefan Hahmann

Erlangen

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg:

• "Konzeption und Implementierung eines Binärformats zur effizienten Übertragung von OpenStreetMap- Daten auf mobile Endgeräte zur dynamischen Generierung individueller Karten" Alexander Münch - 2009/2010 - [30]

Freiburg

Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg:

• "Online-Befragung der OSM Community" - Marco Lechner - 2010-10/2011, [31]

Hannover

Polytechnical College Hannover:

• "LoroDux" - 2010, LoroDux
  Navigation Software for blind persons on JavaME devices
  Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Elisabeth Dennert-Möller

RTS Uni Hannover:

• "Autonomous Robot Navigation Based on OpenStreetMap Geodata" Matthias Hentschel, Bernardo Wagner - 2010 - [32]

Heidelberg

See also Bonn cause Prof. Zipf and staff moved from there in 2009 University of Heidelberg GIScience (Geoinformatics) Research Group

• "Uden, M. und Zipf, A. (2012): OpenBuildingModels und die Herausforderungen beim Crowdsourcing von 3D-Stadtmodellen. AGIT 2012. Symposium für Angewandte Geoinformatik. Salzburg, Austria." Uden, M., Zipf, A. - 2012 - [33]

• "Indoor Evacuation using IndoorOSM and MatSim" "(Indoor Evacuation using IndoorOSM and MatSim)" - Markus Götz - 02/2012, [IndoorOSM]
  uses IndoorOSM for indoor evacuation simulation wit MatSIM trafic simulation package

• "Neis, P. (2012): OpenStreetMap in D-A-CH 2012 - Welche Auswirkungen hat(te) der Lizenzwechsel auf den Datenbestand? AGIT 2012. Symposium für Angewandte Geoinformatik. Salzburg, Austria." Neis, P. - 2012 - [34]

• "GRIPS (uses OSM for traffic simulation and evacuation simulation wit MatSIM trafic simulation package)" - 2011-2013, [35]
  uses OSM for traffic simulation and evacuation simulation wit MatSIM trafic simulation package
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Goetz, M., Zipf, A. (2012): OpenStreetMap in 3D – Detailed Insights on the Current Situation in Germany. AGILE 2012. Avignon, France." Goetz, M, Zipf, A. - 2012 - [36]

• "Roick, O.; Loos, L; Zipf, A. (2012): Visualizing spatio-temporal quality metrics of Volunteered Geographic Information – A case study for OpenStreetMap. Geoinformatik 2012. Mobilität und Umwelt. Braunschweig. Germany." Roick, O.; Loos, L; Zipf, A. - 2012 - [37]

• "Uden, M. and Zipf, A. (2012): OpenBuildingModels - Towards a platform for crowdsourcing virtual 3D cities. 7th 3D GeoInfo Conference. Quebec City, QC, Canada." Uden, M, Zipf, A. - 2012 - [38]

• "Helbich, M., Amelunxen, C., Neis, P. (2012): Comparative Spatial Analysis of Positional Accuracy of OpenStreetMap and Proprietary Geodata. Int. GI_Forum 2012. Salzburg. Austria." Helbich, M., Amelunxen, C., Neis, P., - 2012 - [39]

• "J. Hagenauer & M. Helbich (2012): Mining urban land use patterns from volunteered geographic information by means of genetic algorithms and artificial neural networks. International Journal of Geograhical Information Science (IJGIS). DOI:10.1080/13658816.2011.619501" Hagenauer Julian and Helbich Marco, - 2012 - [40]

• "Goetz, M. and A. Zipf (2012 in press): The Evolution of Geo-Crowdsourcing: Bringing Volunteered Geographic Information to the Third Dimension In: Sui, D.Z., Elwood, S. and M.F. Goodchild (eds.), 2012. Volunteered Geographic Information, Public Participation, and Crowdsourced Production of Geographic Knowledge. Berlin: Springer." Goetz, M. and A. Zipf - 2012 - [41]

• "The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007–2011" Pascal Neis, Dennis Zielstra, Alexander Zipf - 2011 - [42]

• "Goetz, M., Lauer, J., Auer, A. (2012): An Algorithm Based Methodology for the Creation of a Regularly Updated Global Online Map Derived From Volunteered Geographic Information , The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications and Services. GEOProcessing 2012. Valencia, Spain." (Goetz, M., Lauer, J., Auer, A. (2012): An Algorithm Based Methodology for the Creation of a Regularly Updated Global Online Map Derived From Volunteered Geographic Information , The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems, Applications and Services. GEOProcessing 2012. Valencia, Spain.) Goetz, M., Lauer, J., Auer, A. - 2012 - [43]

• "Hagenauer J und Helbich M, (2011): Abgrenzung urbaner Räume mittels OpenStreetMap und maschinellen Lernenverfahren. In Schilcher M: Geoinformationssysteme. Beiträge zum 16. Münchner Fortbildungsseminar, abcverlag, Heidelberg, S. 78-81." (Hagenauer J und Helbich M, (2011): Deriving urban areas from Open Street Map using machine learning.In Schilcher M: Geoinformationssysteme. Beiträge zum 16. Münchner Fortbildungsseminar, abcverlag, Heidelberg, S. 78-81.) Hagenauer Julian and Helbich Marco, - 2011 - [44]

• "Towards Defining a Framework for the Automatic Derivation of 3D CityGML Models from Volunteered Geographic Information" (Towards Defining a Framework for the Automatic Derivation of 3D CityGML Models from Volunteered Geographic Information) Marcus Götz, - [45]

• "Goetz M., Zipf A. (2011): Extending OpenStreetMap to Indoor Environments: Bringing Volunteered Geographic Information to the Next Level. 28th Urban Data Management Symposium. Delft, the Netherlands." (Goetz M., Zipf A. (2011): Extending OpenStreetMap to Indoor Environments: Bringing Volunteered Geographic Information to the Next Level. 28th Urban Data Management Symposium. Delft, the Netherlands.) Marcus Goetz, Alexander Zipf - 2011 - [46]

• "OSMatrix" - Oliver Roick, Julian Hagenauer, [47]
  analyse OSM, preview available (OSMatrix)
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Roick, O.; Loos, L.; Zipf, A. (2012): Visualizing spatio-temporal quality metrics of Volunteered Geographic Information – A case study for OpenStreetMap. Geoinformatik 2012. Mobilität und Umwelt. Braunschweig. Germany." (Visualizing spatio-temporal quality metrics of Volunteered Geographic Information – A case study for OpenStreetMap. Geoinformatik 2012. Mobilität und Umwelt. Braunschweig.) Oliver Roick, Lukas Loos, Alexander Zipf - 2011 - [48]

• "Roick, O.; Hagenauer, J.; Zipf, A. (2011): OSMatrix - Grid based analysis and visualization of OpenStreetMap. SOTM-EU 2011. State of the Map EU. Scientific Track. Wien." Oliver Roick, Julian Hagenauer, Alexander Zipf - 2011 - [49]

• "Crowdsourced Cartography" - Michael Auer, [50]
  Auer, M. (2011): User generated Cartography by crowd sourcing web map styling.- 25th International Cartographic Conference (ICC). 3rd-8th of July 2011- Paris, France.
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "OSM Web Map Service for Europe" - Michael Auer et al., OSM-WMS-EUROPE
  Public WMS with SRTM Hillshading based upon OSM data, SLD based map styling
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Auer, M. & Zipf, A. (2011): OpenStreetMap meets Open Geospatial Consortium - Zum Anwendungspotential einer Geodateninfrastruktur mit freiwillig gesammelten Geodaten. In: Schilcher, M. (Hrsg.): Geoinformationssysteme. Beiträge zum 16. Münchner Fortbildungsseminar, S. 106-113" Michael Auer, Alexander Zipf - 2011 - [51]

• "Quality Improvement of OpenStreetMap" - Julian Hagenauer, Marco Helbich et al., [52]
  use machine learning (Artifical Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for Improving OSM quality
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "FocusMaps with OSM" - Julian Hagenauer, [53]
  Focus Maps and Landmarks
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Neis, P. & Walenciak, G. (2011): Zur Nutzung von TMC Verkehrsmelde

informationen mit OpenStreetMap. AGIT 2011, Symposium Angewandte Geoinformatik, Salzburg, Österreich." Pascal Neis and Georg Walenciak - 2011 - [54]

• "Analysis of user behaviour in OSM, Diploma Thesis" - Helena Stroh
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Routing for Elderly people (60+)" - Neis et al, [55]
  Routing for Elderly people (60+)
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Ein Routenplaner für Rollstuhlfahrer auf der Basis von OpenStreetMap-Daten" Astrid Müller, Pascal Neis, Michael Auer, Alexander Zipf - 2010 - [56]

• "Empirische Untersuchungen zur Datenqualität von OpenStreetMap – Erfahrungen aus zwei Jahren Betrieb mehrerer OSM-Online-Dienste" Pascal Neis, Dennis Zielstra, Alexander Zipf, Alexander Strunck - 2010 - [57]

• "A Comparative Study of Proprietary Geodata and Volunteered Geographic Information for Germany" Dennis Zielstra, Alexander Zipf - 2010 - [58]

• "Improve Geocoder and Reverse Geocoder through Interpolation" - Christof Amelunxen - 2010, [59]
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "HistOSM - Historic Objects in OSM" - Michael Auer et al. - 2010, [60] [61]
  Historic Objects in OSM, WMS & WFS
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Emergency Route Service for Haiti" Pascal Neis . - 2010 - [62]

• "AgroRouting and rural OSM data improvement" - Johannes Lauer - 2010, [63]
  Agricultural Routing and Logistics, Use Agricultural Telematics System for semi-automated improvement of rural OSM data: A workflow for improving the availability of routable data (OSM) for logistics in agriculture - using data from Telematics-systems and community-based quality management. AGILE 2010. The 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science. Guimarães, Portugal.
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Investigations on Locational Accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information Using OpenStreetMap Data" Helbich M., Amelunxen C. , Neis P., Zipf A - 2010 - [64]

• "Emergency Route Service portal for Africa for the United Nations Logistics Cluster, WFP" - Singler, P. Neis, P., Zipf A - 2010, [65]
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Collaborative mapping and Emergency Routing for Disaster Logistics - Case studies from the Haiti earthquake and the UN portal for Afrika" Pascal Neis, Peter Singler, Alexander Zipf - 2010 - [66]

• "Emergency Route Service for Haiti" - Pascal Neis ., [67]
  Emergency Route Service for Haiti after earthquake 2010
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "Accessibility Analysis for Fire Brigades" - Pascal Neis, [68]

• "Accessibility Analysis for E-Mobility" - Pascal Neis - April 2010, April 2010
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "BehindertenRouting" "(Wheelchair routing)" - since 2009, DE:Rollstuhlfahrer-Routing[[69]]
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "OpenRouteService" - Pascal Neis - since 2008, OpenRouteService
  several LBS services, routing and accessibility analysis (AAS)
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "OpenStreetMap 3D" - Arne Schilling - since 2008, OSM-3D
  Visualising OSM data in the third dimension using SRTM DEM dataset as Web Service (W3DS)
  Tutor: Alexander Zipf

• "OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de" "(OpenMapSurfer.uni-hd.de)" - Maxim Rylov - since 2012, OpenMapSurfer
  Global OSM Map Service

Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT):

• "Fast and Exact Mobile Navigation with OpenStreetMap Data" - Christian Vetter - 2010, [70], MoNav
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Sanders

Hochschule Karlsruhe:

• "Vergleich Auswirkungen des Lizenzwechsels..." - Jakob A. - 2010, [71] [72]
  Simulates possible consequences of different license change policies
  Tutor: Frederik Ramm

• "OpenStreetMap in ArcGIS: Automatisierte Datenaufbereitung für Netzwerkanalysen" - Eva Zimmermann - 2010, [73], [74]
  Im Rahmen der Bachelor-Thesis wurde untersucht, ob die OSM-Daten für Netzwerkanalysen in ArcGIS geeignet sind und wie die Integration und Nutzung vereinfacht werden kann. Dazu wurde eine prototypische Anwendung entwickelt, die es ermöglicht, OSM-Daten automatisiert für die Anwendung im Network Analyst vorzubereiten. Diese Anwendung wurde so konzipiert, dass sie Verkehrsnetzwerke für beliebige Fahrzeugtypen und Länder erzeugen kann. Die generierten Netzwerke berücksichtigen folgende OSM-Attribute:
  Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anne Rauner

Kempten

Hochschule Kempten:

•  - 2011, [75], [76]
  (informell) Matching und Profiling von Elektromobilen auf OSM Straßennetz
  Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Rupp

Leipzig

Universität Leipzig:

• "LinkedGeoData – Collaboratively Created Geo-Information for the Semantic Web" - Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann - 2009, LinkedGeoData, [77]
  About RDFing the OSM datas

• "Adding a Spatial Dimension to the Web of Data" Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann and Sebastian Hellmann - 2009 - [78]

• "Map highlighting the ODbL data..." - F.Schmidt - 2010, [79]

München

Ludwig Maximilians Universität München (LMU):

• "TrafficMining - A framework to easily test route search algorithms in OpenStreetMap data." - Franz Graf - 2010, Code Base
  An open source routing framework to compare different routing algorithms on OSM data. The project is kept quite simple so that students and PhDs can test new algorithms on real geospatial data easily. Results can be visualized without dealing with GUI libraries.

• "PAROS: Pareto Optimal Route Selection" F. Graf and H.-P. Kriegel and M. Renz and M. Schubert - 06/2010 - publication page, DOI link, Paper, Poster, (code base)

• "MARiO: Multi Attribute Routing in Open Street Map" F. Graf and H.-P. Kriegel and M. Renz and M. Schubert - 08/2011 - publication page, Paper, (code base)

• "Maximum Gain Round Trips with Cost Constraints" F. Graf and H.-P. Kriegel and M. Schubert - 2011 - abstract, Paper, ArXiv

Technische Universität München (TUM)

• "Webbrowserbasierte Indoor-Navigation für mobile Endgeräte auf Basis der OpenStreetMap" - Andreas Hubel - 2011, [80]
  Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wurde eine Web-Anwendung entwickelt, die Indoor- Navigation auf Basis des Daten des OpenStreetMap Projekts demonstriert und in den Webbrowsern aktueller Smartphones läuft. Die Routenberechung und Kartendarstellung wird direkt auf dem Gerät in JavaScript durchgeführt. Insbesondere wird eine Lösung zur Darstellung von unterschiedlichen Stockwerken auf einer 2D Karte aufgezeigt. Da noch kein Schema für Indoor-Daten in OpenStreetMap definiert war, wurde ein Vorschlag entwickelt und Teile eines Gebäudes darin umgesetzt.

Münster

Universität Münster:

• "Tracking Editing Processes in Volunteered Geographic Information: The Case of OpenStreetMap" Carsten Keßler, Johannes Trame, Tomi Kauppinen - September 2011 - [81]

• "Provenance and Trust in Volunteered Geographic Information: The Case of OpenStreetMap" Carsten Keßler, Johannes Trame, Tomi Kauppinen - September 2011 - [82]

• "Semantic Referencing of Geosensor Data and Volunteered Geographic Information" Simon Scheider, Carsten Keßler, Jens Ortmann, Anusuriya Devaraju, Johannes Trame, Tomi Kauppinen, Werner Kuhn - July 2011 - [83]

• "Exploring the Lineage of Volunteered Geographic Information with Heat Maps" Johannes Trame, Carsten Keßler - March 2011 - [84]

• "Quality Of Geographic Information Patchworks" Patrick Maué, Sven Schade - [85]

Neubrandenburg

Fachhochschule Neubrandenburg:

• "Analyse der kommunalen und regionalen Geodateninfrastrukturen in Deutschland unter dem Gesichtspunkt der öfentlichen Darstellung von Geodaten" - Jörg Bischof - 2009, [86]
  Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Kresse, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehrenpfennig

Osnabrück

Universität Osnabrück:

• "Fahrradies.net - Der Radrouten-Planer für Osnabrück" - Team, Fahrradies.net

• "OsnaGo (www.osnago.de)" - Kai Behncke, [87]
  A (now commercial) map service for tourism services in Osnabrück. The source-code for www.osnago-karte and www.osnago-mobil.de will be published under GNU LGPL in january 2011.A dissertation to that subject is still be written.

• "Bachelorthesis: ATKIS-Basis-DLM und OpenStreetMap - Ein Datenvergleich anhand ausgewählter Gebiete in Niedersachsen" - Mareike Schoof - 10/2010, [88]
  In dieser Bachelorarbeit wird ein Vergleich der Basis-DLM-Daten des Amtlichen Topographisch-Kartographischen Informationssystems (ATKIS) mit den frei verfügbaren Open-StreetMap-Daten durchgeführt. Die Datensätze werden in erster Linie im Hinblick auf die Qualitätsmerkmale Vollständigkeit und Positionsgenauigkeit untersucht. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass die OpenStreetMap-Daten, vor allem in größeren Städten, eine gute Positionsgenauigkeit und teilweise höhere Vollständigkeit aufweisen als die ATKIS-Basis-DLM-Daten, welche jedoch eine konstant hohe Datendichte und Genauigkeit besitzen und somit verlässlicher sind.
  Tutor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Ehlers

• "TRAIS.net - Tracking, Routing and Information Service" - Team, [[89]]

Paderborn

Universität Paderborn:

• "Explorative Evaluierung von Navigationsassistenz für Menschen mit Behinderungen auf Basis von OpenStreetMap" - Peter Wendorff - 10/2011, [90]
  This thesis is about an examination of navigational systems for blind people. Main focus is on the question whether data from OpenStreetMap is usefull for this kindof applications.
  Tutor: Dr. Michael Tauber

Passau

Universität Passau:

• "Graphdarstellung von OpenStreetMap-Wegedaten" - Tobias Knerr - 2009, [91]
  Die Arbeit präsentiert einen Ansatz für die Qualitätssicherung im OpenStreetMap-Projekt: Visualisierung eines aus Wegedaten des Projekts erzeugten Routinggraphen. Die zentralen Aspekte der Datenstruktur des OpenStreetMap-Datensatzes für Zwecke des Routings werden beschrieben und mögliche Löungsalgorithmen für verschiedene Herausforderungen bei der Verarbeitung der Daten vorgestellt. Eine Umsetzung des Konzepts erfolgt in Form des Plugins GraphView für den OpenStreetMap-Dateneditor JOSM.
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Franz J. Brandenburg

Potsdam

Universität Potsdam:

• "Eine fußgängerbezogene Datenaufbereitung" "(Pedestrian related data preperation)" - 2010, PedestrianProject

Hasso Plattner Institut:

• "eWorld - a traffic simulator" "(eWorld - a traffic simulator)" - 2010, [[92]]

Rostock

Universität Rostock:

• "Videomapping im OpenStreetMap Umfeld" - M.Meisser - 06/2011, JOSM/Plugins/VideoMapping
  Bachelor thesis about extending the JOSM editor to link videos against GPS Tracks and optimize Video mapping
  Tutor: Dr. Korduan

Frauenhofer IGD:

• "IMOTRIS – Nutzung des Open Street Map-Ansatzes im Rahmen eines Intermodalen Transport Routing Informationssystems" - Herr Ruth - 2009, [93]

Saarbrücken

Saarland University / DFKI

• "Master's thesis: Extending OpenStreetMap with indoor maps." - Frederic Kerber - 2011/2012, [94]

• "Internet technologies for future geo-related web apps" Rainer Jochem - 2012 - [95]

• "XML3D – Interactive 3D Graphics for the Web" - Kristian Sons, Felix Klein, Dmitri Rubinstein, Sergiy Byelozyorov, Philipp Slusallek - 2010, [96]
  Web technologies provide the basis to distribute digital information worldwide and in realtime but they have also established the Web as a ubiquitous application platform. The Web evolved from simple text data to include advanced layout, images, audio, and recently streaming video. Today, as our digital environment becomes increasingly three-dimensional (e.g. 3D cinema, 3D video, consumer 3D displays, and high-performance 3D processing even in mobile devices) it becomes obvious that we must extend the core Web technologies to support interactive 3D content. Instead of adapting existing graphics technologies to the Web, XML3D uses a more radical approach: We take today’s Web technology and try to find the minimum set of additions that fully support interactive 3D content as an integral part of mixed 2D/3DWeb documents. XML3D enables portable cross-platform authoring, distribution, and rendering of and interaction with 3D data. As a declarative approach XML3D fully leverages existing web technologies including HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the Document Object Model (DOM), and AJAX for dynamic content. All 3D content is exposed in the DOM, fully supporting DOM scripting and events, thus allowing Web designers to easily apply their existing skills. The design of XML3D is based on modern programmable graphics hardware, e.g. supports efficient mapping to GPUs without maintaining copies. It also leverages a new approach to specify shaders independently of specific rendering techniques or graphics APIs. We demonstrated the feasibility of our approach by integrating XML3D support into two major open browser frameworks from Mozilla andWebKit as well as providing a portable implementation based on JavaScript and WebGL.

• "XML3D Physics: Declarative Physics Simulation for the Web" - Kristian Sons and Philipp Slusallek - 2011, [97]
  As interactive 3D graphics has become an integral part of modern Web browsers via the low-level WebGL API, it now becomes apparent that higher-level declarative approaches integrated with HTML5 are needed in order to make 3D graphics broadly and easily accessible to Web developers. A key component of interactive 3D scenes are physics simulations. However, specifying the physics properties required major changes to the scene graph in the past. In this paper, we present a declarative and orthogonal physics annotation framework that nicely separates the generic 3D scene description from its physics properties. The approach is based on the declarative XML3D format as an extension to HTML5, has been implemented as a plug-in that runs in three browsers that support XML3D and is demonstrated with a number of examples and performance evaluations.

Steinfurt

Fachhochschule Münster:

• "Naviki" - 02/2009, Naviki, [98]
  A cycling router and general tour portal
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Gernot Bauer

Stuttgart

HFT Stuttgart:

• "Bachelorthesis: Entwicklung eines deutschen Kartenstils" - Beate Braun - 2010/2011
  Rendern von OpenStreetMap-Daten zu einer deutschlandkonformen Darstellung mit Hilfe von Mapnik. Der Kartenstil steht seit Februar 2011 auf openstreetmap.de zur Verfügung.
  Tutor: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr, Frederik Ramm

• "OpenDTM", [99]
  Höhenlinien basierend auf SRTM DEM Datensatz

• "Visualization of OpenStreetMap data using SUAS MapServer based on WMS" - Qian Min - 2008, GSoC_Applications_2008#Support_for_OSM_data_in_SUAS_MapServer_Qian_Min
  The objective of our project is to provide OpenStreetMap (OSM) data using SUAS MapServer. ut the level of feature classes is not sufficient enough for us because we expect of deriving more feature classes in detail. In order to solve the problem, we found a way to separate the feature classes into more detailed feature classes firstly, and then import new shape format files into SUAS MapServer for visualization of OSM data.
  Tutor: Dr. Franz-Josef Behr

• "Replizierung der Geonames-Datenbank"

• "Simulation von Fahrzeugbewegungen"

• "Simulation von Fahrzeugbewegungen II"
  The aim is to create a simulation of car movements on the Open Street Map.

In order to archieve a realistic simulation (as possible) all cars posess individual properties influencing the behaviour of accelerating, braking and the detection of other moving actors. Using a modificated version of Osmosis, the application is able to read Open Street Map XML files, writing them into a MySQL database and finally optimizing the data structure of this database for improved and faster calculating of road junctions and parsing of the map. Actually all moving vehicles are driving, Open Street Map is being read, parsed and used as the fundament of the simulation. The detection of road junction and collision is still in development, but in a quite advanced state. All actors already do have certain properties for braking, accelerating and their final speed. The final goal of the project is to link other Systems with this simulation of abstract moving vehicles. Adding the ability of influence to each linked system, an complex system is created out of various abstract systems making empiristical research and applications with todays computers possible.

• "OSM-Routenextrahierer"

• "OSM: MySQL- und PostGreSQL-Datenbank im Vergleich"

• "Imageslicer I+II", [100]

Universität Stuttgart:

• "Quality Inspection and Quality Improvement of Large Spatial Datasets" Hainan Chen, Volker Walter - 2008 - [101]

Tübingen

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen:

• "Transit Database for OpenStreetMap Routing" - Stefan Pflumm - 2008, [102]

Wedel

FH Wedel:

• "OpenStreetMap im Vergleich zu anderen Geodatenanbietern" - Josias Polchau - 07/2009, [103]
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Iwanowski

• "Vespucci: Entwicklung eines Geodateneditors für das OpenStreetMap-Projekt auf der Android-Plattform" - Matthias Brandt - 2009, [104]
  Development of Vespucci
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Häauslein

• "Fußwegrouting - Aufbau und Integration eines Fußwegroutings in das Fahrgastinformationssystem GEOFOX" - Josias Polchau - 2010/2011
  Bachelorthesis
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Iwanowski

Ireland

Maynooth

National University of Ireland Maynooth:

• "Characteristics of Heavily Edited Objects in OpenStreetMap" - Dr. Peter Mooney - 02/2012, [105]

• "Towards Quality Metrics for OpenStreetMap" - Dr. Peter Mooney - 12/2010, [106]

• "Annotating Spatial Features in OpenStreetMap" - Dr. Peter Mooney - 03/2011, [107]

• "Comparison of the accuracy of OpenStreetMap for Ireland with Google Maps and Bing Maps" - Ciepłuch , Błażej and Jacob, Ricky and Mooney, Peter and Winstanley, Adam - 03/2011, [108]

Dublin

• "Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis" - Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto - 2011, Springer

• "OpenStreetMap Semantic Network" - Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto - 02/2012, OSMSemanticNetwork

Italy

Bari

Politecnico di Bari:

• "T².O.M.T.O.M. : Techniques and Technologies for an Ontology-based Mobility Tool with Open Maps" - Michele Ruta, Floriano Scioscia, Saverio Ieva, Eugenio Di Sciascio - 2010, [109]

Netherlands

Amsterdam

Geodan and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have a VGI research program that focuses on quality and trust aspects of volunteered geospatial information.

• "The impact of crowdsourcing on spatial data quality indicators" M. van Exel, E. Dias, S. Fruijtier - 2010 - [110]

• "Proposing a redefinition of the social geographic information domain -- Why perpetuating the use of “VGI” will lead to misconceptions and information clutter" M. van Exel, E. Dias, S. Fruijtier - 2011 -

• "Towards A Methodology For Trust Stratification in VGI" M. van Exel, E. Dias - 2011 - [111]

Singapore

• "Low-Cost Mapping and Publishing Methods for Landscape Architectural Analysis and Design in Slum-Upgrading Projects" Philip Paar, Jörg Rekittke - 2011 - [112]

Switzerland

Lausanne

École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne:

• "Campus Orientation tool", [113]
  A highly detailed map of the university campus

Muttenz

Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz:

• "Quality Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)" - Hans-Jörg Stark - 2010, [114]
  Tutor: Prof. Hans-Jörg Stark

• "Map your World - Schüler erfassen Geodaten" - Hans-Jörg Stark, Carmen Treuthard - 2010, [115] [116] , Map your world
  Tutor: Prof. Hans-Jörg Stark

• "Phänomen der Beteiligung von Freiwilligen bei der Erhebung von Geodaten in den Projekten OpenAddresses und OpenStreetMap" - Hans-Jörg Stark, Judith Uhlmann, Fabio Tommasini - 2009, [117]
  Tutor: Prof. Hans-Jörg Stark

Rapperswill

• "OpenPOIMap" - 03/2012, [118]
  Tutor: Prof. Stefan Keller

• "Openstreetmap in a box" - since 2009, [119] [120] [121]
  A easy to deploy OSM WMS setup
  Tutor: Prof. Stefan Keller

Zürich

ETH Zürich:

• "Kartenkritik an OpenStreetMap - Eine systematische Beurteilung der durch Mapnik visualisierten freien Weltkarte mit Fokus auf die Schweiz" - Stefan Zollinger - 2008, [122]
  Tutor: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Hurni

UK

Bristol

• "Ideas in Transit"

Durham

• "Projected Hill Map" - Gregory Marler, [123]
  Is geographic understanding of an area easier to gain and share through use of a system that combines a physical terrain model and a computer-controlled map display, in comparison to traditional flat maps.

London

University College London:

• "OpenStreetMap: User-Generated Street Maps" Haklay - 2008 - [124]

• "Completeness in volunteered geographical information the evolution of OpenStreetMap coverage in England" Mordechai (Muki) Haklay1, Claire Ellul1 - 06/2010 - [125]

• "How good is volunteered geographical information? A comparative study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey datasets" Mordechai Haklay - 2010 - [126]

• "A Quality Analysis of OpenStreetMap Data" - A. Ather - 2009, [127]
  Tutor: Muki Haklay
• Interview with Dr. Haklay on OSM data quality [128]

Loughborough

Loughborough University:

• "An exploration of Volunteered Geographic Information stakeholders" Christopher J. Parker, Andrew May, Val Mitchell - 2010 - [129]

• "Characteristics of VGI Stakeholders" Christopher J. Parker, Andrew May, Val Mitchell - [130]

• "Imformation Value of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Systems" - Christopher J. Parker, Department Profile Research Blog
  Is reading a PhD at Loughborough University, UK (2008 - Present). Put simply this is assessing how adding volunteer generated content to a map (either by a mashup or making a whole map from scratch) along with other professional information may produce applications of higher user value. Focusing on information value from a human factors perspective

Middlesex

Middlesex University:

• "Crowdsourcing is radically changing the geodata landscape: case study of openstreetmap" Steve Chilton - [131]

Oxford

• "How does OSM inflect cartographic theory and practice..." - Joe Gerlach, Departmental Profile, Research Blog
  Is a doctoral student at the School of Geography, University of Oxford, researching the politics, cultures and technologies of virtual and open-source mapping groups such as OpenStreetMap. Drawing on traditions in cultural geography, I'm interested in exploring what politics and spaces are generated by the OpenStreetMap community. Key questions include; how does OSM inflect cartographic theory and practice - moreover, how do the likes of OSM impact upon the way we produce and navigate through space?

US

US Geological Survey

Center for Excellence in GIScience/National Geospatial Technical Operations Center

• "OpenStreetMap Capability prototype" "(OSMCP)" - Eric B. Wolf, Greg D. Matthews, Kevin McNinch - 2010
  An experimental platform for evaluating the OSM software for integrating VGI in The National Map.
  • Open File Report 2011-1136 "OpenStreetMap Collaborative Prototype, Phase 1"

Delaware

University of Delaware

• "OpenStreetMap Capability prototype" "(Campus map of the university with OSM)" - 2011, [132]
  Multilayer Map of the campus

Florida

University of South Florida

• "Enabling Cost-Effective Multimodal Trip Planners through Open Transit Data" - Edward L. Hillsman, Sean J. Barbeau - May, 2011, [133]
  Assessment of the feasibility of developing a multimodal trip planner using open-source software and open sources of data, including OpenStreetMap and transit GTFS data.

• "Comparative Study of Pedestrian Accessibility to Transit Stations Using Free and Proprietary Network Data" - Dennis Zielstra, Hartwig H. Hochmair - Dec, 2011, [134]

Illlinois

• "OpenStreetMap–Overview and Motivational Factors" Nama Budhathoki, Dr. Muki Haklay - 2010 - [135]

• "Participant's motivations to contribute geographic information in an online community" - Budhathoki, Nama R. - 2010, [136]
  Tutor: Bruce, Bertram C.; Hopkins, Lewis D.; Haythornthwaite, Caroline A.; Haklay, Mordechai

Santa Barbara

• "Citizen as Sensors: The World of Volunteered Geography" Goodchild, M.F. - [137]

• "Citizens as voluntary sensors: spatial data infrastructure in the world of Web 2.0." Goodchild, M.F. -

• "NeoGeography and the nature of geographic expertise" Goodchild, Michael - [138]

Maryland

University of Maryland:

• "TerpNav" - Faster Team
  A OSM based highly detailed OSM map

TerpNav is a pedestrian map of the University of Maryland at College Park (Go Terps) and is built on the OSM base. A successful student project, it was adopted as the official campus pedestrian map several years ago, and today sees heavy use by campus residents and visitors alike. Heaviest use is in the first days of class each semester as students hunt for the best paths to find their classes! One of the important and driving features of TerpNav is its support for handicap accessibility, and an option is to present best paths based on absence of stairs and availability of curb cuts.

The latest version of TerpNav is TN3 which evidences our experiences with usage patterns and provides better searching capabilities. The work continues in support of social networking capabilities that naturally hang on a geo-aware tool like TerpNav.

Washington

• "Tropes 2.0: Mobilization in OpenStreetMap" - Josef Eckert
  You can now access the completed thesis here: "Tropes 2.0: Strategic Mobilizations of the Geoweb"

Completed a 2 years master's thesis at the University of Washington, Seattle. Explores how social movement theory may offer a component of the answer to why people choose to contribute data to the OpenStreetMap project. Blending ethnographic tools of participant observation and semi-structured interviews, Joe seeks a more nuanced explanation of participant motivation. He identifies 3 tropes: "you", "the community", and "the map" that are unpacked as mobilizing frameworks and situated understandings on the part of user-participants. Josef's influences include his own past work in public participatory GIS for underrepresented demographics, as well as feminist critiques of science and technology studies, critical GIS, socio-legal studies, and geopolitics. He continues working with OpenStreetMap data in his Ph. D. work that hopes to examine the means by which some data are privileged for collection over others, and how this might be leveraged to correct data with poor accuracy.

San Diego

• "Ongoing training of homeland security personnel through the use of open-source, geospatial tools such as OpenStreetMap and walking papers" - Barbara W. Batterson-Rossi - 2011
  SDSU Digital Research Collection listing has link to the full PDF.

Thesis for Master of Science in Homeland Security. "Through the collaborative efforts of crowd-sourced, publically available data to OpenStreetMap and Walking Papers, first responders in both governmental and community- based agencies are able to obtain real or near-real time data specific to their needs"

See also

• Communication
• Development