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=2026-02-12 Meeting Minutes= Presentation on OpenStreetMap by Steven

  • OpenStreetMap started as a way to map private buses in the UK
  • Entirely open source
  • Community-built, anyone can edit
    • Online web editor
    • Java OpenStreetMap Editor (JOSM)
      • JOSM shows more advanced data, is more complex
      • Can automatically fetch data like addresses
  • Android Clients (all offline)
    • OsmAnd
    • CoMaps
    • Organic Maps
  • Various other ways to view the map
    • OnTheGoMap
  • API is free
  • StreetComplete
    • App that marks unfinished data as "quests"
    • Meant to encourage completion of the maps
  • Michigan is the only state in the US that doesn't allow you to get addresses through JOSM
  • Google Maps can't be used to contribute due to licensing, try to get your data legally
  • LOTS of things to be added, and its very easy to do so
  • https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM-based_services

Extra Stuff:

  • Planned installathon
    • Reach out to Women in Science (might be a different name??) since they also do installathons
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