OSM Mapping

OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways. Since all of the mapping data is open source, and all of the tools freely available to use, smaller organizations can benefit from the sort of mapping tools normally requiring large setup costs and annual license fees. The low cost of GPS tracking systems means that users can maintain and expand their own database in any way they like. Watch this space as the facilities are developed and expanded. It is our intention to add an OSM package to the bitweaver framework in the same way as the mapper package provides access to mapserver content. These will compliment one another since mapserver handles scanned documents while OSM works with XML mapping data.

I have reactivated my account on OpenStreetMap and set up JOSM as the editor to add and update material in the database. Now I just need to remember how to use it to do things. There should be some crib sheets about this which I will need to find. Search for 'openstreetmap' on the global search.

OSM Development work material