The completeness of the OpenStreetMap (OSM) road network has been an ongoing focus for researchers for more than 15 years. For instance, Neis et al. (2011) investigated the OSM street network evolution in Germany and compared it against road data … Read More
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Version 1.0 of the ohsome quality API and ohsome dashboard
At HeiGIT and in particular within the ohsome team, we strive to provide valuable insights into OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. The ohsome API offers aggregated statistics on the evolution of OSM elements since 2020. These are made easily accessible by the … Read More
Taginfo goes ohsome
Did you know that the OpenStreetMap (OSM) taginfo site now lets you access the ohsome dashboard? This allows you to gain refined insights into the usage stats of specific keys and tags. Taginfo is the main source for statistics about … Read More
Visualizing OQT API Results in QGIS
Using the ohsome dashboard, it is possible to explore quality estimation for OpenStreetMap (OSM) data from the ohsome quality analyst (OQT) for arbitrary regions. Also, OQT does provide an API to programmatically fetch quality estimation for a lot of different … Read More
Introducing ohsomeNow stats: Real-Time Monitoring for OpenStreetMap Contributions
You can now monitor contributions to OpenStreetMap (OSM) in real time with ohsomeNow stats! We developed this new dashboard as part of our long-term cooperation with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), an international organization dedicated to humanitarian action and community … Read More
Exploring OSM editor statistics by combining data from OSHDB and changeset DB
Exploring OSM editor statistics by combining data from OSHDB and changeset DB OpenStreetMap (OSM) marks one of the most successful and powerful open source, crowdsourced geomaps, with over 10 million registered users by 2023. Since 2008 this number has increased … Read More
Integration of OQT into the ohsome dashboard: Computing data quality metrics for OpenStreetMap
The ohsome dashboard has been and continues to be an easy access point to generate accurate statistics about the historical development of OpenStreetMap data for arbitrary regions. Now, the ohsome dashboard got extended to be able to compute data quality … Read More
2022 #30DayMapChallenge Round-Up Part 4: The Whole Wide World
Featured Map: Isochrones (areas reachable within 2 hours from larger Japanese cities) by HeiGIT’s openrouteservice for bigger cities on the main islands of Japan, Marcel Reinmuth’s submission for Day 3 (“Polygons”) of Topi Tjukanov’s Twitter event #30DayMapChallenge. Map derived from OpenStreetMap … Read More
Participatory Mapping taken one step further – The new version of the Sketch Map Tool
Sketch Map Tool (SMT) – An easy-to-use way to create and digitalize paper maps for offline data collection in the field The HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) team recently launched a new version of the Sketch Map Tool – … Read More
How to become ohsome part 15- Analysing Changes in OSM after the Earthquake in Syria and Türkiye in February 2023
Featured Map: Percent change in each province of Türkiye and Syria of buildings in OSM. Data from OpenStreetMap, visualized using QGIS and the ohsome API plugin. Welcome back to the how to become ohsome series! If you’re new to the series, … Read More
HeiGIT to hold hands-on workshop about OSM data quality at FOSSGIS Berlin 15.-18.03.2023
HeiGIT will present its software “ohsome quality analyst” (OQT) at the FOSSGIS Conference in Berlin this week. In the demo session, Benjamin Herfort will show the numerous possibilities of the tool and how everyone can use OQT to evaluate completeness, … Read More
An ohsome R package on CRAN
Our ohsome R package has finally landed on CRAN! The package grants access to the power of the ohsome API. This makes it even easier to analyze the rich data source of OpenStreetMap (OSM) history from R. You can specify … Read More
Time to celebrate! oshdb has reached an object count of >10 billion!
As of 02.11.2022 we have reached objects 10,107,826,483* in our oshdb. As such, we think it is most definitely time to celebrate! *For information on the background this figure, read our Basic guide to OSM data filtering 😉 This blog post … Read More
ohsome Region of the month – Temporal OSM developments in Kyiv
Welcome back to our ohsome region of the month series! In this post, we’ll take a look at the temporal development of highways and added smoothness-information, as well as social facilities and updates on map development for Kyiv. Before we … Read More
ohsomeHeX with Quality indication from OQT
The HeiGIT team had a great time at the State of the Map 2022 in Florence. Many thanks to the participants for the fruitful discussions at our workshop! Despite the direct use of OSM as a map, more and more … Read More
New feature addition to Ohsome Quality analysT: Building Completeness Indicator
Introduction Since the release of the ohsome quality analyst (short OQT) in February of last year, we have been working on developing an accessible yet powerful toolkit which provides end users insights on the quality of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. An … Read More
How to become ohsome part 14 – Advanced dashboarding
Hello again and welcome back to our “How to become ohsome” series where we demonstrate how you too can become ohsome with ohsome API! If you’re new to the series or need a refresher, check out the older installments in … Read More
How to become ohsome part 13 – An ohsome way to check if OSM is up to date
At long last, welcome to another addition of our How to become ohsome-series! This one is special because we’re discussing a third-party application that uses ohsome API as back-end to accumulate historical OSM data. Although this innovation isn’t directly about our API, … Read More
ohsomeHeX lite-mode: Mobile friendly ohsomeHeX
In the modern technological age, mobile application are necessary to reach out to the masses. Therefore, it’s critical for any web application to be available through mobile devices. In the case of ohsomeHeX, enabling use on mobile devices requires overcoming … Read More
ohsome Region of the Month: hiking-related tags & mountains
Welcome back to a new installment of the ohsome Region of the Month blog series! This will be part two our posts on hiking related tags and this time, we’ll investigate the connection between user activity and said tags. To … Read More