Source Overview

Source Tree

The 'Trac' system also provides a web view of the actual source and revisions: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/

...or alternatively subversion provides a more basic web interface: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/

The following are some notes on what is where.

• applications
  • editors
    • merkaartor
    • josm
    • osmtracker
    • potlatch - ActionScript source code only (the SWF and controller code live in sites/rails_port)
    • applet, osm-editor, osmpedit and pyosmeditor are deprecated
  • etc
  • lib - a couple of shared libraries used by OSM applications
  • rendering - config (and source where appropriate) for major OSM rendering applications: Mapnik, Osmarender, Gosmore, Tiles@home etc.
  • routing
    • pyroute
  • share - common icons used by several applications/renderers
  • utils
    • osmosis
    • various scripts (Perl, Python etc.) to deal with OSM data and translate into different formats
  • viewer
    • JMapViewer (Java) component for easy integration of OSM maps into a Java application
• misc
  • multimedia resources - presentations given on OSM, a few featured static map images, etc.
• sites
  • namefinder - David Earl's search utility
  • other - code for other related websites (e.g. Freemap, Tiles@home)
  • rails_port - a note where to find The Rails Port, main OSM site and API code
  • stateofthemap - support code for www.stateofthemap.org site
  • support - deprecated
  • tile.openstreetmap.org - source for tileserver
  • www.freethepostcode.org - old source code for freethepostcode.org (no longer maintained as part of OSM)
  • www.openstreetmap.de