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Great photos of OpenStreetMap community, maps, or artwork posted here stand a good chance of being made Featured images, giving your picture a week of infamy on the front page of the OpenStreetMap Wiki, plus eternal fame in the archives. Good luck!

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Image sources

Places that might contain interesting OSM stuff:


With regard to the Glosm featured image choice, this directory has various very cool looking screenshots, see 2nd and 3rd for example. (Balrog 02:44, 17 February 2011 (UTC))

Requests for images

If you know of or can create one of the following images, please add it to this page, or add a link to the talk page:

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Suggestions without images

Openlayers track example

Openlayer tracks firefox.PNG Shows one or multiple GPX tracks in the openlayers. Go here for more details: Openlayers_Track_example --Zapfen 07:18, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Silverstone Circuit

Silverstone Circuit2.png A render of Silverstone Race circuit, as it's the UK Grandprix weekend this weekend. Few bits missing, but most is quite high detail.

I've darkened the racetrack to make it bold, highlighting it would look tacky. It was a render of the area, rather than just of the circuit, hence it wasn't highlighted before. Ben 17:52, 9 July 2007 (BST)

What you need is OpenLayers with active markers.. ;-) Good Job --Mungewell 19:15, 4 April 2008 (BST)


Visualize tours in the map

Wiki-mytb-1.4.png MyTourbook is an application that can visualize tours in a map which are recorded by a GPS device.
Different map providers can be selected, with the offline feature, the maps can be used without internet connection.


Max length for caption text?

Speaking of being compact... Shouldn't we limit these image captions to three or four sentences? (I'm also talking about the current Main Page featured image, which has a whole essay written under it!) I'd suggest writing all of this detail on the image description page, and sticking to a very brief summary appearing within the Main Page box. -- Harry Wood 14:49, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. Any objections? Ojw 20:22, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

City Murmur

City Murmur Madrid.png City Murmur is a project which shows the density and type of news items for every street, based on OSM data.

Map quality program

Mq20small.png Mapping Quality, a program helping you understand where to direct yout mapping efforts. Not sure if it needs a better image or not... This looks pretty cool Erik Johansson 09:39, 13 January 2009 (UTC). Changed the picture for a more appropriate format, Gary68. Thanks for the proposal.

Another map print

3274048625 815c60625e.jpg

Relation Check

RelCheckMulti.png Relation Check - This program checks for errors in relations. Sample report can also be found.

Some examples of use of The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth in/and OSM

Osmeol.jpg Some examples of use of OSM and The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth imagery.

See here for image Georeferencing .

OSM WMS EUROPE

Europe-Hill.JPG The OSM WMS EUROPE with a Hillshade Layer of a part from Europe (more comming soon).

--Osm-3d 11:59, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

Distance map

Diatancemapsmall.png Distancemap.pl - This program creates maps with distances to a certain destination on all nodes.

Custom OSM Style in Garmin GPS

Osm ph garmin.jpg Custom Garmin style in OSM-PH Garmin GPS Map. Get the map here. Available only for the Philippines

MapJumper : jump from map to map

MapJumper.jpg MapJumper is a customizable javascript bookmarklet allow you to jump from map to map keeping the same coordinate and zoom parameters

Paper map @Technical University of Moldova

[16] or this one [17] looking for new members in university

Gaza city

Gaza.png Detailed view of Gaza city showing road names, health facilities, schools, the university, a stadium, a dress shop and a cemetery. I suggest we put this one up some time in Jan 2010, one year on from the crisis that initiated the mapping. The full data was uploaded into OSM in Sept09[18].

PeterIto 18:12, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

13.5 Km wide airplane: Brasília

Brasilia 2011-03-13.png Brasília is the capital city of Brazil. See it in the map. It will be 50 years old next year.

The city street layout was designed by architect wikipedia:Oscar Niemeyer, inspired by a humminbird kissing a flower.

I like this proposal because I've visited the city (and helped map it a bit), and it does indeed have a bonkers street layout. However, there's a bit more Yahoo sketching to do, to fill in some of the blank areas still I think. Remote mapping party some time? -- Harry Wood 14:56, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
I replaced the image with a newer one - there are more roads and other things mapped, though in one area roads have disappeared when compared with 2009 version - some natural disaster? --Bilbo 13:29, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Camino de Santiago

Camino de Santiago-Camino francès.jpg The famous Way of St. James, a medieval pilgrimage, UNESCO World Heritage, is a big part of the Long-distance paths (as hiking route) and of the EuroVelo (as cycle route) European projects.

The Camino francès, in Spain, is being fully mapped, well rendered on the longvia website, using the osmc:symbol=* tagging.

A saint James Year ( in French Année jacquaire, not shure of the expression in English) is a year where Saint James feastday (25 jully) is a Sunday. Those years, the number of pligrims going to Santiago is greater. 2010 is a Saint James Year. I suggest to put this image on the week preceding the Saint James feast day. --FrViPofm 21:26, 24 June 2010 (UTC)

i agree. Año Xacobeo (Holy Year of St James): Way of St. James --Sergionaranja 17:17, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Bere Alston, Devon, UK

BereAlston.png The village of Bere Alston in West Devon, UK has the surrounding rural field hedge boundaries captured from the Yahoo imagery and the newly uploaded historic 1:25k Ordnance Survey mapping. The historic mapping has proved to be valuable in this particular case as there is siginificant cloud cover for some of the fields and surrounding areas.
I'd prefer not to feature this image until we've actually got some agreement on how to map farmland.
I'll explain a bit more. The image shows the use of boundary=hedge, but not landuse=farm. That's completely fair enough. Mapping farm landuse turns the map an ugly brown colour and presents lots of awkward questions of how exactly to do it, and where to stop (since the whole of the english countryside is farmland) These problems are under discussion Talk:Tag:landuse=farm. I can completely understand why one mapper would chose to ignore the landuse problem and just stick with hedges in their area. But making this a featured image will encourage lots of other mappers to either sweep the issue under the carpet, or even to delete farm landuse to move towards the illustrated approach. Basically we should not feature images unless they're showing a better example following an agreed tagging approach, and if that means we need to work on reaching agreement... let's do that.
-- Harry Wood 11:22, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

Street areas

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.29727&lon=11.43369&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF

Gosmore

Gosmore2010.png Latest rendering style from Gosmore

3D road junction support in osm2mp

Navitel-3d-roads.jpg osm2mp converter now supports 3D road junctions.

Chennai Public Transport Density

Chennai Openstreetmap Public Transport Density Map.png Heatmap visualization of the density of Chennai's bus and rail network coverage

Szczecin building footprints

Szczecin-gis-footprints.png Buildings in Szczecin with their heights and attributes automatically(ish) traced from the city's cadastre. MapSurfer rendering.

There are some potentially more interesting places in the city to take a screenshot of, I picked a random place with minimum height variation. Not sure about MapSurfer's policy wrt making screenshots of the website. -- Balrog 01:37, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

Not sure they have a choice, if it's derived from OSM data? Ojw 19:57, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Osm on Car

Werbung.png Ad from ortung-kfz.de on a car in Berlin (Germany)

This could be a license violation! Missing source and license information. In this case they claim copyright for themself. --Bahnpirat 11:08, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Live Ticker

Live-Ticker.png khtml.org [19], live ticker

It took me a long time to understand what I'm seeing here. Need a descriptive caption. Also is it described on the wiki anywhere? We have a wiki page for Khtmlib. Is the live ticker feature described anywhere? -- Harry Wood 12:18, 27 June 2011 (BST)

Bilingual map rendering

Bilingual Rendering Khon Kaen.png Map showing bilingual labels: Khon Khaen, Thailand, names in Thai/English


Avances de OSM en Mérida Venezuela

MeridaVenezuela 2010 08 27.png Mapa al 27-08-2010 de Merida, Venezuela Ver mas: Look this maps: [20]

Road quality map of Romania based on OSM data

RoadQualityMapRomania.png With the help of a motorbike community in Romania we have been able to create this map (site available only in Romanian) using only OSM data.

Surrey air survey

Weybridge gardens.png Houses and gardens in Weybridge, from the Surrey Air Survey

Wait, all of those dark lines seem to be closed polygon fences. So every building is fenced in? In addition, shouldn't the common fences just a single way instead of overlapping? --seav 17:22, 17 October 2010 (BST)

Something worth bearing in mind for this and other map extracts is that it is worthwhile checking that the mappers have signed up to the ODbL. Andrew 18:05, 30 October 2010 (BST)

no airbrushing of history! If we lose all this data in a license change then it becomes even more useful as an illustration of the project. Ojw 12:57, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
You've picked a strange time to feature this now though, given that we have to seriously think about deleting all of this data in the next few months. Incidentally I don't consider it to be a big loss, because although it's beautiful, it was created relatively easily from Surrey Air Survey, and can be recreated. The real shame is the loss of data which User:80n has been out and surveyed, of which there is a LOT.
But (more controversially) I actually consider this kind of hyper-detailed mapping to be a bit damaging for the reasons I've tried to explain towards the end of my SOTM talk. I haven't figured out much of a solution to that problem, but maybe we should think about not showing these kinds of things in feature images... but I know this goes against the grain.
-- Harry Wood 16:09, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
We used to (still do?) think same about houses, and I think there's still a comment on this page about not wanting field-boundaries. Is the argument "we don't want more data than we can maintain" [same reason that wikipedia deletes pages] or "we don't want inconsistant data coverage" (that being one of OSM's defining features - see any land border!) or "it's not surveying because it's only tracing"?
Thing is: the amount of aerial photography available to us has been regularly increasing for long enough that we could expect in the long term that it will be routine to have multiple aerial images of a place being mapped (e.g. the data from Surrey Air Survey could later be confirmed with the Yahoo imagery and then the Bing images, and some of the features might even have originally been from Landsat). In that situation traced data is no longer just a one-time unmaintainable import, but something which can be progressively improved over time from multiple original sources with several people editing (look at your "nearest contributors" map now - are they getting closer?), and where changes to the real world can be detected and fixed in the map. Perhaps more like "real surveying" than it first appears, even if it doesn't get you fit by cycling around roads?
Surely it's not just technical problems with displaying and transferring very detailed data? As each country develops in OSM, we follow the steady change from editing large sparse areas to maintaining small dense areas. Consider 2007 in UK map where a typical edit might be contributing 100km of the A6, compared with a 2011 edit of the same area where you'd be lucky to find two unmapped shops in the same town (several of my recent surveying trips were actually objects that turned out to be just decluttered out of the rendering, but were correctly mapped and tagged in the database). Meanwhile other countries' edits are steadily following the same trend at different speeds - soon someone's "tracklog from trans-africa tour" in a JOSM session of one degree squared will seem as inappropriate as trying to move the entire M25 in one edit. Are we sure it's feasible long-term to draw a line in the sand (so to speak) and say "this much detail, no more"? How would a 2005 mapper have set that limit? In 2006 we still thought that adding parks was crazy detail. Meanwhile there are discussions for historical maps with a time-selector in the editor, or thematic editors which will require step changes in the user-interface far in excess of the gradual but inexorable march to more dense detail. Ojw 21:14, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
Yeah so I'm seeing this inexorable march to more dense detail as a problem. It's a problem of "we don't want inconsistent data coverage" more than the "too much data to maintain" thing. This comes from looking at OpenStreetMap from a data/map users point of view. We might hope that inconsistent coverage will even out over time, but if our pro-mappers are constantly distracted by new levels of detail, perhaps it never will. Take a map of this junior school at z16 for example. Imagine we try to persuade them that their website should use OpenStreetMap instead of google maps. There's an ugly imbalance in the level of detail. How long before other pro-mappers come to fill in every garden fence on the West side of the motorway? The argument that new mappers are popping up and filling in this detail ever more, may not extend as far as every garden fence. If we squander the energy and enthusiasm of our no-longer-exponentially-growing mapping community on silly things, then we may never achieve a balanced map.
The counter-argument "how would a 2005 mapper have set the limit?" is one that occurred to me certainly. Maybe in two years time I'll be mapping every garden fence around my house, because that's where we've moved on to. Can we draw a line in the sand? Not really. This is really just a thought experiment because I have no proposal for any practical way of putting a lid on detail levels. At the moment just framing it as a problem is going against the grain. Hyper-detail is something that in the past we've always celebrated (not least on the featured images). The question is ...should we be?
-- Harry Wood 10:59, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
We can certainly celebrate consistancy if anyone can come-up with images to represent it, e.g. maybe Tom persuades the US to fix their city hierachy, or if the Haiti/DR border or Cyprus border ever look the same on both sides. What other ideas for illustrating it? Ojw 13:46, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

Algiers Province Boundaries

Wilaya alger osm 20102010.PNG OSM mapping of Algiers province on 20 october 2010

Hardware accelerated real-time rendering

Rtrscreenshot1.png Using graphics card to render images in real-time, instead of displaying prerendered tiles. Go here for more details: Hardware_accelerated_real-time_rendering , 30 October 2010

Solving the multiple travelling salesman problem

Screenshot mTSP algorithms small.PNG Over the past few weeks I have been experimenting using OpenStreetMap data to plan rounds for deliveries in Brussels. I have managed to create a routing library in C# to solve the Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem.

I use for this a well known optimisation technique called genetic algorithms. The first results were promising but the implementation of the algorithm is still a bit slow. I also added constraints; for example minimum/maximum total weight of items, minimum/maximum duration, minimum/maxium distance.

A first result is in the featured image.

Gpx files of the results can be found at: www.14k.be

Solved: http://xkcd.com/399/

Blankets

Merchandise#Blankets_and_Napkins

Fireproof map

Siedlce-fireproof-josm.gif JOSM's fresh MapCSS support used to render building fire-resistance rating in Siedlce. The city's council recently donated detailed buildings data to OSM including many attributes like fireproof/non-fireproof rating. Red colour shows building:fireproof=no.

(Is it too dark? Balrog 01:50, 4 March 2011 (UTC))


Hikingbook

HMoverview.png Hikingbook.pl creates descriptions for hiking routes out of an osm file. Just give file, relation name, ref or name and hit enter. PDF book will contain title, tag info, overview map, route description with POIs, detail maps, even an elevation profile and POI directory. --Gary68 07:21, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Edinburgh leisure heatmap

Edinburgh leisure heatmap.png A heatmap of Edinburgh showing access to leisure facilities, using OpenStreetMap data. From an idea by Hawkeye

Blue areas have good access to leisure areas (such as sports centres, parks, gardens and golf courses) and red areas have poorer access to leisure areas. Image created by Steve http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevefaeembra/5414584382/

Data Copyright OpenStreetMap and contributors, CC-BY-SA, data via www.geofabrik.de/

OpenStreetMap used in a the The Danish Working Environment Authority' android app

SC20110606-082049.png The Danish Working Environment Authority android app, used by the inspectors to see their current visits and the route between them.


-- 08:35, 6 June 2011 User:Winbladh

I reworded your above caption to be a little more snappy.
The image is a lot taller than it is wide, which can be a bit problematic layout-wise.
The image itself is no more interesting than the many other screenshots of Android apps showing OpenStreetMap tiles. What's interesting is that the Danish government are using this. A really great imag would be a photograph of a Danish official holding a phone, using the app. Somehow convey the government use a bit more. Maybe a bit difficult to get though.
-- Harry Wood 10:47, 6 June 2011 (BST)

Mapping Krivoy Rog city (Ukraine)

Krivoy Rog mapping.gifMapping the Krivoy Rog city / Маппинг города Кривой Рог, Днепропетровская обл.
We can see a progress of mapping one of the Ukrainian cities - Krivoy Rog in Dnepropetrovsk region. More 90% of work was made during 3.5 month by a couple of people.

Lokki 18:35, 18 June 2011 (BST)

Deep blue Sea

GEBCO-Wassertiefe-OpenSeaMap-Welt.jpg
    Sea Profile - with seashade, depth lines, coloured, zoom 0..18.
Added by harbours and a nautical coordinate grid.
Bathymetric data from GEBCO, processed and used by OpenSeaMap.
    Meeresprofil - mit Schattierung, Tiefenlinien, Farbskala, Zoom 0..18.
Ergänzt mit Häfen und Koordinatengitter.
Bathymetrische Daten von GEBCO, gerechnet und angewandt von OpenSeaMap.

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Server move

http://www.flickr.com/photos/harrywood/5863059620/

COlour schemes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/blpz/6055868958/

Brighton Mapping Party progress video

As a reply to an article in the Guardian about Skobler GPS' bad coverage of Hotels in Brighton (http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/appsblog/2011/oct/27/skobbler-navigation-2-satnav-app) a bunch of the London OSMers went on a mapping party to Brighton (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brighton#Brighton_Mapping_Party). This image (and accompanying video) shows the progress made with data gathered on this mapping party.

Image: X-20111128-0505.jpg

Video: http://vimeo.com/derickr/osm-brighton


OpenStreetMap: A Year of Edits 2011

This video shows all edits made to the OpenStreetMap project in 2011. 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 (white flashes) and cumulative edits (yellow) in 2011. It gives a good overview of the effort that 1000s of contributors put in to make OpenStreetMap the best source of mapping data.


Image: Osm-yearofedits-2011.jpg

Video: http://vimeo.com/derickr/osm-2011

OpenStreetPad Screenshot

OpenStreetPad has just been released. A screenshot might be a good plan! (not that this is shameless self promotion or anything)

Image: OSPScreenshot.png

AIRO

AIROAccessMap airports.png

Travel time to airports in Ireland


Night of the living maps

Notlm 2012 final.png

Maybe we can show this image for week 7 2012 as I hope to release a review on monday at opengeodata.org?

Bit late for week 7 now, but scheduled for week 8! Ojw 22:04, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

7-metre-long BIGMAP map set

Bmms-gerhl-2012a.jpg

Bmms-gerhl-2012b.JPG

BIGMAP map set during the exhibition "Traumpfade 2012" in Germany, Lübeck.
Showing 18 levels of the mapnik renderer, starting with the world on four tiles on a scale of 1:250.000.000 up to Lübeck City on a scale of 1:2.000

OpenStreetMap on a big screen in Chelyabinsk

ChelyabinskTraffic1.jpg
On 28th of March a governor of Chelyabinsk Region, Russia was presented a city traffic management system based on OpenStreetMap. Photo ©gubernator74.ru

Another photo, with bigger map, but doesn't feel as grand as in the first one.


Mapping a rua in Brazil

Photo mapping a rua in Brazil.jpg
 Out mapping in Brazil. Hackers from São Paulo did an "Ônibus Hacker" bus trip to Ribeirão Preto to teach 12-14 year olds how to map

Fabricio got some nice pictures on this trip (and an interesting diary entry). I liked this one because I thought it's sort of an artistically dynamic mapping action shot. -- Harry Wood 02:16, 5 April 2012 (BST)

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