OSM provides a rich and detailed geodatabase the global scenery is only beginning to scratch the surface of what can be done with the data. XPOSM and OSM2XP) that will build custom scenery from OSM data. There are already several existing projects (e.g. Just because the global scenery will use OSM does not mean that global scenery will be the only way to use OSM. But I want to make one point immediately: In future posts I will address some of the details of what data we are using, how you can contribute in ways that will affect the global scenery, and how we are (trying) to cope with the OSM licensing change. You can start with a single edit.īy connecting X-Plane’s source data to the OpenStreetMap community, we can join forces with many other communities that are all working to improve the availability of global mapping data our improvements (for the sake of improving X-Plane) can help other groups that are working on completely different projects, and their improvements benefit us. I clicked the edit tab, marked out the bridges, and saved my change. This morning I was viewing my own town and discovered that two railroad bridges were not marked. Not only does OSM make it easy to fix problems permanently, but OSM makes it easy to make very small changes. OSM is the source data, so if you improve global data within OSM, you have fixed the problem permanently. The lake comes from a data set and when we recut the scenery, any user edits would be destroyed by the conversion from source data. In the eight years since I first started poking my nose into X-Plane scenery, I have heard this more times than I can count: “The lake near my house is in the wrong place. I can’t emphasize the importance of this second point enough. Their servers to accept edits are already running and maintained. OSM has the infrastructure to accept changes, track changes, and the management infrastructure to view history, revert mistakes, and accept many edits from a huge user base simultaneously. You can directly edit OSM either on your own machine (via JOSM) or directly in your web browser (via Potlatch). More importantly, OSM provides all of the infrastructure to improve the data.In Europe the win is incomparable: we are going from having virtually no vector data to having the complete road grid of many major European cities. This extra information allows us to construct a much more plausible road system. In the US, we had a complete road grid via TIGER, but OSM has been improved to contain direction-of-travel and bridge information. OSM contains significantly better road data in every part of the world.The top images are a whole-tile and metro image from VMAP0, and the bottom are the same areas in OSM.) (That’s the 48N 2E tile, which contains Paris.
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