Openstreetmap But About The World

OpenStreetMap user Martin Raifer has released his annual visualization of OpenStreetMap Node Density. The map shows the release of OSM-nodes per foursquare metre on the ground. In other words it provides a visual guide to the amount of OSM information some the world.

The node density is worked out at the cease of June each twelvemonth in addition to the OpenStreetMap Node Density map includes layers to exhibit the node density for previous years. You tin switch betwixt the dissimilar years to larn a feel of where inwards the globe the close editing of OSM has taken place. Alternatively y'all tin sentiment the 'difference' layers to run into where major editing of OSM has happened inwards the by year.


OpenStreetMap is of cast an ongoing projection to map the world. The globe is ever changing in addition to OSM needs to constantly update to reverberate those changes. Therefore dedicated volunteers some the globe are ever working to ameliorate the map.

OSMlab's Show Me The Way provides a real-time sentiment of OpenStreetMap's contributors inwards action. Using satellite imagery from Bing Maps 'Show Me The Way' provides a captivating visualization of the ever improving OSM project, every bit it really happens.


You tin larn a corking feel of how all these private edits to OpenStreetMap has tardily built an incredibly detailed map of the globe on Mapbox's Ten Years of OpenStreetMap. Mapbox created this animated map dorsum inwards 2015 to grade the 10th anniversary of OSM.

The map shows how OpenStreetMap grew inwards its commencement x years from a map of a few London streets to i of the close detailed maps of the world. The animated map reveals how OSM developed from what was at commencement largely a map of the the U.S.A. in addition to Europe into a genuinely global map.