Open Street Map – Mapping the World
Maps, especially online have always been restrictive in what you can do with them due to copyright etc. But there has been an international movement dedicated to providing unrestricted alternatives and as you can see, this map of my part of London is pretty good. I’ve put a blue rectangle around the area in the top map which the bottom map shows.
Like Google Maps you can zoom in and out and drag the map. No satellite data of course!
Not all streets are currently labelled- mine isn’t, but I could sign up and add it in. As more and more people sign up this becomes more and more valuable. One danger is of course that people will be lazy and copy data from commercial or copyright maps and that could be a problem. It’s not unknown for cartographers to introduce fake streets etc to try and spot when people copy their work.
So if you have a spare moment or two, why not help this map by signing up (no costs) and adding your local information.
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Posted: June 18th, 2011 under collaborative, data, geo, information, maps, resource, world.
Tags: collaborative, editable, mapping, open source, user
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