Data Mining OpenStreetMap with Overpass-turbo | Mapbox GL JS
Channel: JAVASCRIPT STORE
Date: 23/01/2018

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is built and maintained collaboratively by a group of enthusiastic mappers. It all started in 2004 – Steve Coast was frustrated with the state of maps in the UK. Although the government had large chunks of data stashed away, the data really didn’t solve any problem. Also, the map space was closed; there were only a few vendors offering data and services and if you wanted a solution related to geospatial entities (terrain information, driving direction, city map), you would pay for data which by the way was closed for extensibility and customization. Almost around the same time, the success of Wikipedia caught Steves interest. He decided to replicate the same crowdsourced model for maps. Later that year, he founded OpenStreetMap.

In this video, you will learn how to extract data from OpenStreetMap.

Link to GitHub repo - https://github.com/viswesh/Maps/tree/master/chapter5

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