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- Cover
- Copyright
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- + Chapter 1: Making a Free, Editable Map of the World
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Chapter 2: Getting started at openstreetmap.org
- A quick tour of the front page
- Creating your account
- How to use the slippy map
- Interacting with the data
- Project documentation: the wiki
- + Communicating with other mappers
- planet.openstreetmap.org
- Reporting problems with OpenStreetMap software
- OpenStreetMap on social networks
- Don't be afraid to ask
- Summary
- + Chapter 3: Gathering Data using GPS
- + Chapter 4: How OpenStreetMap Records Geographical Features
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Chapter 5: OpenStreetMap's Editing Applications
- + Chapter 6: Mapping and Editing Techniques
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Chapter 7: Checking OpenStreetMap Data for Problems
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Chapter 8: Producing Customised Maps
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Chapter 9: Getting Raw OpenStreetMap Data
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Chapter 10: Manipulating OpenStreetMap Data using Osmosis
- + What is Osmosis?
- How Osmosis processes data
- + Cutting out a bounding box
- + Cutting out data with a bounding polygon
- + Using tag filters to produce tailored datasets
- + Splitting and merging data streams
- + Automatically updating local data from diffs
- Reading the OpenStreetMap API from Osmosis
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Using Osmosis with a database
- Other Osmosis tasks
- Summary
- + Chapter 11: OpenStreetMap's Future
- Index
This book introduces the OSM project, its aims and objectives, and its history, then guides you through the process of gathering, editing, and using OpenStreetMap data using a series of real-world examples.This book is the perfect aid for geographic-information professionals interested in using OpenStreetMap in their work and web designers and developers who want to include mapping in their sites, and want a distinctive style. It is for you if you have a need to use maps and geographic data for work or leisure, and want accurate, up-to-date maps showing the information you're interested in, without details you don't need. If you want to use maps for navigation and want more or less detail than traditional printed maps give this book is perfect for you.
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Computers > Programming > Open Source
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Publication year : 2010
License: All rights reserved ©
Times read: 1,241

