OpenStreetMap user Martin Raifer has released his annual visualization of OpenStreetMap Node Density. The map shows the let on of OSM-nodes per foursquare metre on the ground. In other words it provides a visual guide to the amount of OSM information closed to the world.
The node density is worked out at the cease of June each yr too the OpenStreetMap Node Density map includes layers to present the node density for previous years. You tin switch betwixt the dissimilar years to larn a feel of where inwards the globe the almost editing of OSM has taken place. Alternatively y'all tin persuasion the 'difference' layers to come across where major editing of OSM has happened inwards the by year.
OpenStreetMap is of flat an ongoing projection to map the world. The globe is e'er changing too OSM needs to constantly update to reverberate those changes. Therefore dedicated volunteers closed to the globe are e'er working to better the map.
OSMlab's Show Me The Way provides a real-time persuasion 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, equally it real happens.
You tin larn a non bad feel of how all these private edits to OpenStreetMap has piece of cake built an incredibly detailed map of the globe on Mapbox's Ten Years of OpenStreetMap. Mapbox created this animated map dorsum inwards 2015 to score the 10th anniversary of OSM.
The map shows how OpenStreetMap grew inwards its outset 10 years from a map of a few London streets to 1 of the almost detailed maps of the world. The animated map reveals how OSM developed from what was at outset largely a map of the U.S.A. too Europe into a real global map.
