Content of the Book

Table of Contents for the 1st English Edition, 2010.

Part I: Introduction

Part I introduces you to OpenStreetMap and its community.

1 Making the Free World Map
1.1 The Wikipedia of Cartography
1.2 Free is more than Free of Charge
1.3 Bitmaps, Vector Data, Geodata
1.4 OpenStreetMap and Geographic Information Systems
2 OpenStreetMap on the Web
2.1 The OpenStreetMap Web Site
2.2 OpenStreetBugs
2.3 OpenRouteService and YourNavigation
2.4 The Best of OSM
2.5 National and Regional Resources
3 The OpenStreetMap Community
3.1 Your OpenStreetMap Account
3.2 Mailing Lists and Forums
3.3 Keeping Track – Trac and Subversion
3.4 The OpenStreetMap Chat on IRC
3.5 Mapping Parties
3.6 Meetings and Conferences
3.7 The OpenStreetMap Foundation and its Local Chapters

Part II: OpenStreetMap for Contributors

Part II explains how you use your GPS device to survey the planet and upload the data to OpenStreetMap through the popular editors. It also has a detailed description of how OSM data is structured, and gives examples for mapping.

Chapter 5:
"Mapping Practice"
as PDF

4 On the Road with Your GPS Device
4.1 The Global Positioning System
4.2 The GPS Signal
4.3 Satellite Visibility and Positional Fix
4.4 Differential GPS
4.5 Is GPS Accurate Enough?
4.6 GPS Receiver Designs
4.7 Choosing a GPS for OSM
4.8 Types of GPS Data
4.9 GPS Data Formats
4.10 GPSBabel
4.11 Handling the GPS Unit
5 Mapping Practice
5.1 A Typical Mapping Example
5.2 Notes and Recordings
5.3 Working with the Map
5.4 Working with Aerial Imagery
5.5 More Mapping Tips
6 The Data Model
6.1 Basic Object Types
6.2 The OSM XML Format
6.3 Modeling Areas
6.4 Tracks and Trackpoints
6.5 History of the OSM Data Model
6.6 Future Development
7 Map Features – What We Map
7.1 Roads and Railways
7.2 Forests, Lakes, and Rivers
7.3 Coastline and Islands
7.4 Buildings and Land Use Areas
7.5 Villages, Cities, and Borders
7.6 Other Points of Interest
7.7 Annotations and Missing Information
7.8 Links
7.9 Data Sources
7.10 A Practical Example
7.11 Tagging Priorities
8 Advanced Map Features
8.1 Complex Polygons
8.2 Boundaries and Land Area
8.3 Addresses and House Numbers
8.4 Routes
8.5 Public Transport
8.6 Turn Restrictions
8.7 Life Cycle Concepts, History, and Construction
8.8 Ways Parallel to Roads
8.9 Other Kinds of Relations
8.10 Who Else Maps, and How?
9 Potlatch, the Online Flash Editor
9.1 First Steps
9.2 Editing Tags
9.3 Creating Nodes and Ways
9.4 Editing Nodes and Ways
9.5 Saving Changes
9.6 Reverting Changes
9.7 Relations in Potlatch
9.8 Working with GPS Tracks
9.9 Background Images
9.10 Additional Functionality
9.11 Upcoming – Potlatch 2
10 JOSM, the Offline Java Editor
10.1 Installing and Running JOSM
10.2 Loading Local Files into JOSM
10.3 Loading Data from the OSM Server
10.4 Editing the Map
10.5 Uploading Changes to the OSM Server
10.6 Saving Changes to a File
10.7 Creating and Modifying Relations
10.8 JOSM Plugins
11 Other Editors
11.1 Merkaartor
11.2 Mapzen
11.3 Vespucci
11.4 Mapzen POI Collector
11.5 Osm2go
12 Tools for Mappers
12.1 Data Layer and Data Browser
12.2 OSM Inspector
12.3 ITO OSM Mapper
12.4 Further Tools
13 License Issues when Mapping
13.1 What Data can be Used?
13.2 Copying from Other Maps
13.3 Satellite and Aerial Imagery
13.4 Importing Data
13.5 A Change in the License?

Part III: Making and Using Maps

In Part III we talk about making maps from OpenStreetMap data. We introduce you to the renderers Osmarender, Mapnik, and Kosmos, and you learn how to use a little HTML and JavaScript to add interactive maps to a web page. There's also a chapter on mobile use of OSM, and turn-by-turn navigation.

14 Using OpenStreetMap on Web Pages
14.1 Anatomy of a Web Map
14.2 The Mapnik Tile Server
14.3 The Tiles@Home Project
14.4 Using OSM with Google Maps
14.5 Using OSM with OpenLayers
14.6 CloudMade Maps
15 Accessing OSM Data
15.1 Downloading Data from the OSM API
15.2 Downloading Data Using Planet Dumps
16 Making Maps with Osmarender
16.1 Scalable Vector Graphics
16.2 Osmarender and XSLT
16.3 Running Osmarender
16.4 An Introduction to the Rules File
16.5 The Rules File in Detail
16.6 Writing Your Own Map Styles
16.7 Special Osmarender Tags
16.8 Drawing Bézier Curves
17 Drawing Maps with Mapnik
17.1 Installing PostgreSQL and PostGIS
17.2 Importing OSM Data into the PostGIS Database
17.3 Projections
17.4 Slim Mode and Updates
17.5 Installing Mapnik
17.6 Anatomy of a Map Style File
17.7 Your First Mapnik OSM Map
17.8 Making Standard OpenStreetMap Maps With Mapnik
17.9 Performance Considerations in Map Style Files
17.10 Cascadenik
18 Making Maps With Kosmos
18.1 Installation
18.2 Starting Kosmos and Loading Data
18.3 Choosing a Map Style
18.4 Defining Your Own Map Styles
18.5 The Kosmos Tile Server
18.6 Printing and Exporting Bitmaps with Kosmos
18.7 Maperitive
19 Navigation and Mobile Use
19.1 Basics
19.2 Pre-Processing OSM Data for Routing
19.3 Garmin GPS Units
19.4 Web-based Route Planning
19.5 Offmaps (iPhone)
19.6 Roadee (iPhone)
19.7 Skobbler (iPhone)
19.8 GpsMid (J2ME)
19.9 AndNav2 (Android)
19.10 Navit
19.11 Traveling Salesman
19.12 pgRouting
19.13 Gosmore
20 License Issues When Using Data
20.1 Who is the Owner of OpenStreetMap Data?
20.2 Collective Works and Derived Works
20.3 Do I Have to Publish?
20.4 Can I Sell OpenStreetMap Data?
20.5 What Happens if I Disregard the License?
20.6 Is the License Legally Binding?
20.7 The Open Database License

Part IV: Hacking OpenStreetMap

This part of the book is aimed at hackers and developers. We discuss the depths of the OSM database server and its API, we explain imports and exports and discuss important tools used for processing OSM data.

21 Writing Software for OSM
21.1 Working with Large Amounts of Data
21.2 Finding Your Way through the Subversion Repository
22 The OpenStreetMap API
22.1 Creating, Retrieving, Updating, and Deleting Objects
22.2 Creating or Modifying Multiple Objects at once
22.3 Requesting all Objects in an Area
22.4 Other Methods of Access
22.5 Working with Changesets
22.6 Uploading and Downloading GPS Tracks
22.7 Accessing User Data
22.8 Capabilities Request
22.9 Authorization with OAuth
22.10 Development and Testing APIs
23 Other APIs and Web Services
23.1 XAPI
23.2 Name Finder
23.3 Nominatim
23.4 GeoNames
24 Osmosis, the Universal Tool
24.1 Common Command Line Options
24.2 Reading and Writing XML Files
24.3 Reading and Writing Databases
24.4 Creating and Processing Change Files
24.5 Filtering by Geography or Tags
24.6 Merging and Multiplying Data Streams
24.7 Other Tasks
24.8 Processing Old Data Files
24.9 Osmosis Plugins
24.10 Alternatives to Osmosis
25 Advanced Editing
25.1 Large-Scale Changes Using the Editor
25.2 Undeleting Objects
25.3 Making Automated Changes
25.4 Reverting Changes
26 Import and Export
26.1 General Data Import Issues
26.2 Importing Shapefiles
26.3 Data Export
26.4 Exporting Bitmap and Vector Images
27 Running an OSM Server
27.1 Running Your Own API Server
27.2 The API SQL Schema
27.3 Running Your Own Tile Server
27.4 The Osm2pgsql SQL Schema

Appendix

Introduction to Geodesy
Mapping the World

Index
Directory of OSM Tags

This is the table of contents for the first English edition. If you switch the Language to German you can see the table of contents for the 3rd, German edition.

The appendix "Mapping the World" is available under the CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.
Mapping the World as PDF.
An OpenOffice document with this text is available from the OSM SVN.

OpenStreetMap

Using and Enhancing the Free Map of the World