One of the great things about Open Data and OpenStreetMap is that you can control what the map looks like. You are not limited to just what the data looks like and you can customise it yourself.
I have made a custom Mapnik style file that's optimized for Amazon ...
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Using OpenStreetMap with TileMill can be done with OpenStreetMap Shapefiles in TileMill. However things get interesting if import the data into PostGIS. You have more control over what you want to render (since IME it's easier to change data in a SQL table, than a shapefile), and it's ...
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TileMill comes with a basic coastline data set, which it calls #countries on new layers. It's great, but it's not very accurate when you zoom in more than zoom 7. OpenStreetMap has coastline data, and it's much more accurate and detailed than the default TileMill one. It ...
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After you install TileMill, you want to have some data to play with. OpenStreetMap is a great source of freely licenced geo-data for making maps. Probably the easiest to is use the SHP files that Geofabrik provide. Starting off at downloads.geofabrik.de/osm, find the country/area you're ...
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While browsing around the Amazon Kindle Store, I found someone else selling loads of Maps on the Kindle. They have a much larger selection than I do, hundreds of maps. It's good to see someone else validate my theory that you can sell maps on the Kindle.
However from ...
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osm2pgsql is the main way to import OpenStreetMap data into a database (e.g. a PostGIS/PostgreSQL database). The old fashioned way to play with OpenStreetMap data was to use the OSM XML file format. However recently Google released Protocol Buffers (aka protobuf aka pbf) a much faster way to ...
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I've just populated this site with about 6,500 pages from Open Street Map Data, one for each city that I can make maps from. It also has a Wufoo form on each page. I'm hoping these will be suitable landing pages for web searches. However it'll ...
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In order to calculate how to walk across Dublin without passing any pubs, I had to know where all the pubs in Dublin are. I used OpenStreetMap data for the locations of all the pubs.
After publishing that route, many people contacted me asking for the data of all the ...
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Here's a CSV file of all the cities in the world from OpenStreetMap data. Download now. It's a list of all places that are tagged place=city.
First entry is the latitude, second is the longitude, third is the name of the city. Latitude is a number, positive ...
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