OpenStreetMap: 21 million miles of roads

[MdMax 233]

and more than 78 million buildings.

 

 

Hi all !

 

View the 2013 data report here:

http://www.mapbox.com/osm-data-report/

 

Find your house on the map here:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

 

Do you want to get a more realistic and detailed world inside your flight simulators ? Then open a free OpenStreetMap account, and start editing around your house !

http://osmlab.github.io/welcome-osm/

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners'_guide

 

 

Here's a place in Lorraine:

 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=49.178&lon=6.039&zoom=14&layers=M

 

 

And this is how it looks in X-Plane with OSM2XP and XPOSM:

 

 

Happy mapping and flying ! B)

[Phantom88 3,287]

Awesome Max!!

[CarlosF 1,239]

Awesome!!

 

Don't know how to do any of it but I'm willing to learn and will give it a shot.

 

thanks for the links.

[Pascal_LSGC 298]

Fascinating !

Thanks MdMax !

[MdMax 233]

Awesome!!

 

Don't know how to do any of it but I'm willing to learn and will give it a shot.

 

thanks for the links.

If you want to watch how it's done before you really start, you can find video tutorials here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Video_tutorials

 

My favorite editor is JOSM:

http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

[MikeT707 1,181]

This really looks like the direction that simulation needs to go. I am glad that XPX is on that track.

[CarlosF 1,239]

Thx Max

[MdMax 233]

Here's a nice website if you want to see live where OpenStreetMap is being updated by contributors:

http://live.openstreetmap.fr/

 

Did you all find your house on the map ?

[MdMax 233]

Sorry my previous link has a problem. Here's another way to see real time changes in OpenStreetMap:

http://datenkueche.com/osmlive/

[aputech 1]

MdMax, I was going through the OSM tutorial videos and had a wonderful "verklempt moment" thinking of how awesome it is to be a part of a worldwide project that greatly benefits those of us in the X-Plane community. Wow, this is really cool, yes? :biggrin:

 

APUtech

[MdMax 233]

MdMax, I was going through the OSM tutorial videos and had a wonderful "verklempt moment" thinking of how awesome it is to be a part of a worldwide project that greatly benefits those of us in the X-Plane community. Wow, this is really cool, yes? :biggrin:

 

APUtech

 

Yes it's really cool. :smile:

 

On Sunday I added the buildings and tracks for a village called Pange. I also updated the neighbor villages, the border of the forests, improved the roads, and all the nice ponds where some of my friends go fishing.

 

This is the result in OpenStreetMap:

 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/49.0869/6.3516

 

In X-Plane, after using XPOSM and OSM2XP you can see the result here (with old low-res ground textures):

 

 

I think this will look very nice once the water showing the ponds is no more a texture thanks to the global scenery recut.

[Bunkers 52]

My impression is that France is by far the best covered region in OSM. I fly almost exclusively there now because of it. Thank you MdMax and everyone responsible for it!

 

 

 

(with old low-res ground textures)

Yeah, why dont you just use simheaven photo's, it looks killer-real with accurate OSM on top.

[MdMax 233]

Yeah, why dont you just use simheaven photo's, it looks killer-real with accurate OSM on top.

 

If Simheaven's source is Google, then it will not look better:

https://maps.google.fr/?ll=49.085454,6.3544&spn=0.005382,0.009645&t=h&z=17

 

Sometimes, Google's pictures are perfect, sometimes like in Pange, it's looking bad.

 

You can compare with Bing and Geoportail:

http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=49.085702~6.353679&lvl=17&dir=0&sty=h&form=LMLTCC

http://www.geoportail.gouv.fr/accueil?c=6.352953081911824,49.08579454083388&z=0.00001124167922674641&l=ORTHOIMAGERY.ORTHOPHOTOS::GEOPORTAIL:OGC:WMTS(1)&permalink=yes

[Bunkers 52]

If Simheaven's source is Google, then it will not look better:

https://maps.google....009645&t=h&z=17

Interesting. I dont know where he gets the photos from, but from my screenshot it seems it is not google as it is much sharper. 

 

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/109/ejvb.jpg/

 

It definitely needed an update in OSM though   :good:

[MdMax 233]

Thank you for this tip !!! :smile:

 

 

SimHeaven.com has the best textures !