Webinar Making Maps from OpenStreetMap Data

• Title: "Making Maps from OpenStreetMap Data"
• A UNIGIS u_Lecture (Webinar) by Prof. Stefan Keller
• Date/Time: Monday, June 10, 2014, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM CEST

Contents: This presentation shows how to make own maps given some amount of cartographic knowledge and the established crowdsourcing geospatial data project OpenStreetMap (OSM). The combination of freely accessible worldwide OSM data and open source tools empower people to do cartographic visualization. A core element of this presentation is a handbook with selected software tools and programming scripts. First we go through the steps and tools needed to produce a base or a thematic map provided by a gallery of predefined styles. Then we look at some yet to be enhanced aspects of preprocessing like database (tag) homogenization and cartographic generalization.

 Handbook mentioned in the lecture: Making Maps from OpenStreetMap Data
 Handout of the lecture: Datei:UNIGIS Webinar sfkeller v01.pdf 

Other ressources mentioned in the lecture:

• umap - The easy web mapping tool: Example of umap
• The download source of OSM data as Shapefile and OSM PBF files of countries of the world: http://download.geofabrik.de
• The desktop converter tool GDAL/OGR - used to extract data: http://gdal.org, see also HowTo OGR2OGR
• The desktop rendering tool TileMill - the "design studio" for journalists, web designers, researchers, or cartographers.
• The desktop editing and rendering tool QGIS
• The OGRE Online Converter and line simplification tool http://ogre.adc4gis.com/ (map generalization)
• Mapshaper, online line simplification tool: http://www.mapshaper.org/

See also:

• 8. UNIGIS-Tag Schweiz, Fr. 19. September 2014 Rapperswil: Programm und Anmeldung...