[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap GPS Points Map

[Mike Dupont]

I have been wondering what the license is on the gps points? is it affected
by the change?
mike

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Ilya Zverev <zverik at textual.ru> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> As you know, almost half a year ago a GPX Planet was released (
> http://blog.osmfoundation.**org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-**data/<http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/04/01/bulk-gps-point-data/>).
> At the time I expressed a hope that someone would process that file, making
> tile layer and regional extracts. Alas, in those months the file has only
> been statistically analyzed (thanks to Pascal Neis and Steven Kay), but no
> practical use for that array of data has been found. Well, as they say, OSM
> is do-ocracy: if you want something, the only way to get it is to do it
> yourself. So, after several weeks of coding and impatiently waiting for
> processing to finish, I present to you:
>
> 1) A tile layer of GPS points for the whole world down to zoom 11:
> http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/**gps/ <http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/>
> 2) Regional extracts, so you won't have to wait several hours cutting your
> country out of the planet dump: http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/**
> gps/files/extracts/ <http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/files/extracts/>
> 3) All tools that were used to build that map and those extracts:
> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/**applications/utils/gps-tracks/**
> gpxplanet_tools/<http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/gps-tracks/gpxplanet_tools/>
> 4) A nice poster with GPS points, some statistics and interesting facts:
> http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/**gps/files/world-gps-points-**
> 120604-2048.png<http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/files/world-gps-points-120604-2048.png>
>
> What are uses of this? By this time I found two:
>
> a) Now you can adjust your trip plans to collect GPS tracks where there
> are none in OpenStreetMap database. Sorry, Germany, it's almost impossible
> in your country. But I was surprised to find some untrodden secondary and
> even primary roads in hilly regions not far from my city.
>
> b) The redaction bot has removed not only whole objects, but a lot of
> nodes from inside highways. Overlaying the OSM layer with GPS points map
> makes it very clear where a road deviates from GPS tracks, because the bot
> ate some of its nodes, or because it was straightened by road workers, and
> the mapper who updated it didn't bother to upload a fresh track.
>
> And since the GPS tile layer is useful for restoring the road network,
> I've made tiles up to zoom 15 for Poland, with green dots for using in
> JOSM. Just add tms[15]:http://zverik.osm.**rambler.ru/gps/poland/{zoom}/{*
> *x}/{y}.png<http://zverik.osm.rambler.ru/gps/poland/%7Bzoom%7D/%7Bx%7D/%7By%7D.png>as a TMS layer, and you're good.
>
> I hope to see more uses to the GPX Planet, and to see it updated more
> often. Also, I'd like to remind Ian and Grant about their unfinished tool:
> https://github.com/iandees/**planet-gpx-dump/<https://github.com/iandees/planet-gpx-dump/>;)
>
> Thanks,
> IZ
>
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