Open street map

Self-portrait

OpenStreetMap impulsa mediante geodatos a miles de sitios web, aplicaciones móviles y dispositivos de hardware.

OpenStreetMap lo crea una gran comunidad de colaboradores que con sus contribuciones al mapa añaden y mantienen datos sobre caminos, senderos, cafeterías, estaciones de ferrocarril y muchas cosas más a lo largo de todo el mundo.

Conocimiento local

OpenStreetMap valora mucho el conocimiento local. Los colaboradores utilizan imágenes aéreas, dispositivos GPS, mapas y otras fuentes de datos libres para verificar que los datos de OSM sean precisos y estén actualizados.

Impulsado por la comunidad

La comunidad de OpenStreetMap es diversa, apasionada y creciente día a día. Nuestros colaboradores incluyen a mapeadores entusiastas, profesionales de los SIG, ingenieros que mantienen los servidores de OSM, personas con inquietudes humanitarias que cartografían zonas afectadas por desastres y muchos más. Para aprender más acerca de la comunidad, consulte los diarios de los usuarios, blogs de la comunidad y el sitio web de la Fundación OSM.

Datos abiertos

OpenStreetMap es datos abiertos: puedes usarlo libremente para cualquier propósito, siempre y cuando des crédito a OpenStreetMap y a sus colaboradores. Si alteras o te basas en los datos en casos determinados, deberás distribuir el resultado únicamente bajo la misma licencia. Consulta la página sobre Derechos de autor y Licencia para obtener más detalles.

Legal

Este sitio y muchos otros servicios relacionados son manejados por la Fundación OpenStreetMap (OSMF) en nombre de la comunidad. Contacta a la OSMF si tienes preguntas o problemas sobre licencias, derechos de autor u otro tema legal.

Socios

El alojamiento de los servidores está respaldado por el centro VR de la UCL, Imperial College de Londres y Bytemark Hosting, y otros socios. (http://www.openstreetmap.org/about)

Description

Open Street Map is a site that provides geographic data with the collaboration of enthusiasts and experts that help in the growth and development of free use of geospatial information, so as to permit programmers, scientists, social activists, cartographers and users in general to not limit their projects to the terms and conditions of Google maps. Geographic information is not free or free in all parts of the world, it is distorted by political or commercial interests. Open Street Map (OSM) proposes a world map created by volunteers, also allowing for user modifications according to the transformations that users may observe.

The OSM collaborators contribute with information on maps, roads and points of specific interest, ranging from cultural or entertainment zones to affected areas, and using a variety of technologies such as GPS, aerial maps and free data sources in order to make of local knowledge a shared resource. The information may be accessed and used freely, subjected to giving credit to the project. If modified, alterations must be notified under the same license.

The site is built by the Open Street Map Foundation (OSMF), a non-profit initiative located in United Kingdom, which also maintains the servers and hosting for the Open Street Map Project. It involves more than half a million volunteers mapping all around the world, and serves as a platform to generate its funding via donations. It also organizes the annual conference State of the Map and provides assistance to working groups generating communication links between members.

The OSM has three tools: a visor which can search maps and provides access to places with the information that the collaborators have shared; an online editor that uses a Java applet and allows for the modification of data by introducing new information or adding more to the already existing; and the online editors used by users to make modifications from their computers, such as Potlatch or JOSM.

The site lets you explore GPS public traces with routes uploaded chronologically, as well as access to users' diaries who describe explorations of territories with particular intentions and strategies such as: municipalities in Nicaragua, mapping of sidewalks and crossings, the Roads to Rome project, or Missing Maps, with collaborators in Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone, Haiti, Bangladesh, or South Africa, among many others.

Links

URL: http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20160819212054/http://www.openstreetmap.org/

Wikipedia: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStreetMap