Conceptual compliance measures to what degree contributors of volunteered geographic information (VGI) are using proposed tagging-standards. Here, we look into OpenStreetMap (OSM) as the most well-known example for VGI. In OSM the most important tagging guideline is defined by its … Read More
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Explore the ohsome OSM History of whole Germany
Our new ohsome dashboard is another preview on what is and will be possible with our ohsome OpenStreetMap history analytics platform. Behind the scenes, we added support for the Apache Ignite big data framework and deployed an instance using the … Read More
Documentation of the Ohsome API
In a previous blog post we introduced the REST-based interface of our framework Ohsome (the OpenStreetmap History Analytics plattform) and gave an example link of a request. This blog post aims to give you some further information about the documentation … Read More
Analyse HOT Tasking Manager Projects with the ohsome API
In this example we show you how to use a Jupyter Notebook with the ohsome API to analyse mapping efforts for a HOT Tasking Manager project in Nepal!
Ohsome – a high level architectural overview of the OSM History Analytics platform
Recently we introduced the ohsome platform for OSM History Analytics. Now we want to give you a high-level overview of the ohsome platform and the components it consists of. Ohsome API The ohsome platform is based on a three-layers API … Read More
The Ohsome API: dynamic OSM statistics for real-world applications
The Ohsome API, developed at HeiGIT, is part of the ohsome OSM history analytics platform (and yes, it is pronounced like the word „awesome“ 😉. It serves as the connection between the OpenStreetMap History Database (OSHDB) and possible frontends, such … Read More
Introducing the ohsome OSM History Analytics Platform
The big spatial data analytics team at HeiGIT is currently developing the ohsome OpenStreetMap history analytics platform. Our aim is to make OSM’s full-history data more easily accessible for various kinds of data analytics tasks on a global scale. OpenStreetMap … Read More
HeiGIT/GIScience Heidelberg partnership with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)
We are happy to hereby announce the official partnership of the HeiGIT/GIScience Research Group Heidelberg and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)! The GIScience Research Group at Heidelberg University has been supporting the use of OpenStreetMap for humanitarian and disaster management … Read More