talk by tim waters at State Of The Map 2012 OpenStreetMap Conference - a lighthearted talk about the enthusiasms about the project

1. You Know You are
Addicted to OSM
When…
Tim Waters @tim_waters chippy

2. Definitions
OCOSMD
(JS Schmidt)
Addiction
Person
Mapper
Community
Wider ecosystem

3. OSM Purity Self Test
Please edit & translate!
If you feel compelled...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
wiki/OSM_purity_self-test

4. OSM Purity Self Test:
What do you do if the
weather's too bad to go out
mapping at the weekend?

5. 0 - watch the TV
1 - look at the OSM website to see how
your area is getting on
2 - work on OSM software of some sort
3 - wander round your local streets with a
GPS for about half an hour, umbrella
4 - catch the train, bus or drive to
somewhere unmapped and map it in vehicle
5 - Go out all day regardless, nothing will
stop you!

6. You Know You are
Addicted to OSM
When…
indicators

7. When you map your city and
mark it complete

8. And so you move to another city
with less OSM!
Greg
Durham → Canada
Steve & Hurricane
Denver – Seattle
Mikel
San Francisco → Nairobi
Marten
Amsterdam → Salt Lake City
Kate
Washington DC → Indonesia

9. ... You forget to pick the girlfriend up
from work, but remember the GPS.

10. ... You forget the keys to the car, but
remember the GPS

11. When you keep count of the number
of OSM events you have attended.

12. When you lose count of the number
of OSM events you have attended!
C

13. Your children only get map cakes!

14. When you take your GPS on a
rollercoaster

15. When you map in the face of
danger!

16. When you are offered a free lift
home by friends or relatives and you
direct them around different roads to
get the most traces
`

17. Have a whole year living with no
copyrighted maps

18. When you write your own editor

19. And another editor...

20. And another one!

21. When your GPS breaks! And you
get depressed.

22. When your GPS breaks...but it's
okay!
Armchair mapping
Walking Papers
HOT Task Manager

23. You see a new roundabout, and
decide to drive 6 times full circle in
it, to get all an inner and outer lanes.
(JDS)

24. You go on holiday to a remote
Scottish island, and your baby son
says “GPS” as his first word
- jonobennet
GPS

25. “When, even at your age, you're still
looking for Easter Eggs”
- Maning
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/
Copyright_Easter_Eggs

26. You can tell where a trace is by
reading the raw NMEA/GPX log...
$GPRMC,184332.07,A,1929.459,S,02410.381,E,74.00,16.78,210410,0.0,E,A*2B
$GPGGA,184333.07,1929.439,S,02410.387,E,1,04,2.8,100.00,M,­
33.9,M,,0000*65
$GPGLL,1929.420,S,02410.393,E,184334.07,A,A*71
$GPVTG,16.78,T,,M,74.00,N,137.05,K,A*36
$GPRMC,184336.07,A,1929.380,S,02410.405,E,74.00,16.78,210410,0.0,E,A*27
$GPGGA,184337.07,1929.361,S,02410.411,E,1,04,1.8,100.00,M,­
33.9,M,,0000*60
$GPGLL,1929.341,S,02410.417,E,184338.07,A,A*76
$GPVTG,16.78,T,,M,74.00,N,137.05,K,A*36
$GPRMC,184340.07,A,1929.301,S,02410.429,E,74.00,16.78,210410,0.0,E,A*21
$GPGGA,184341.07,1929.282,S,02410.435,E,1,04,2.3,100.00,M,­
33.9,M,,0000*63
$GPGLL,1929.262,S,02410.441,E,184342.07,A,A*78
$GPVTG,16.78,T,,M,74.00,N,137.05,K,A*36
$GPRMC,184344.07,A,1929.223,S,02410.452,E,74.00,16.78,210410,0.0,E,A*28
$GPGGA,184345.64,1929.203,S,02410.458,E,1,04,2.3,100.00,M,­
33.9,M,,0000*60
$GPGLL,1929.183,S,02410.464,E,184346.07,A,A*77
$GPVTG,16.78,T,,M,74.00,N,137.05,K,A*36

27. ?

28. You can convert degrees of latitude /
longitude to meters in your head
var R = 6378.137; // Radius of earth in KM
var dLat = (lat2 ­ lat1) * Math.PI / 180;
var dLon = (lon2 ­ lon1) * Math.PI / 180;
var a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
Math.cos(lat1 * Math.PI / 180) * Math.cos(lat2 *
Math.PI / 180) *
Math.sin(dLon/2) * Math.sin(dLon/2);
var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1­
a));
var d = R * c;
return d * 1000;

29. ...where a place is by its zoom 12
tile z/x/y
14/14553/6451

30. ?

31. Tokyo

32. You get excited by a
new planet.osm dump
every week
and buy huge new disk
drives and Bluerays to
keep them on

33. And then you spend a few hours
to extract the planet to get a daily
update in the growth of the planet,
in bytes.
391915765760.02719321
bytes

34. You still have your tiles@home
server farm sitting idle in the
cupboard at work

35. More dysfunction...

36. You run for OpenStreetMap
Foundation Board
...as a troll

37. You fork OSM

38. You reject the contributor terms

39. Meta

40. OCOSMD-ception
When you do a talk about Addiction to OSM When you do a slide
in the talk about the slide in the talk about Addiction to OSM

41. You run out of things to map, and so
you start mapping things that might
be there.
Like Ley lines
竜行

42. When you run a mapping party

43. When you mapped...

44. And mapped...

45. And mapped....

46. When you spend your evenings
writing an OSM application
2285 openstreetmap repositories

47. When you spend your weekends
maintaining the OSM servers

48. When you are in the Licensing
Working Group

49. When you are in the Licensing
Working Group
…. and like it!

50. When some things seem not that
important...

51. Apple

52. GeoCaching

53. Foursquare

54. Craigslist

55. Nike

56. WHERES
THE
ATTRIBUTION?!1!?!

57. When know who FakeSteveC is

58. When you ARE FakeSteveC

59. When you import the buildings around your
neighbourhood of OSM into your open
source flight simulator just so you can fly
over them

60. You choose the most expensive
chair in IKEA to serve your armchair
mapping activities

61. When you camp outside an
unopened shopping mall in the
snow with GPS + Camera... and get
arrested
firefishy (grant slater)

62. There is help...

63. 3 Steps Programme

64. Accept your obsessions

65. Tell everyone

66. Take a break -
do other harmless things
Sleep
Facebook
Drink
Google Map Maker

67. You Know You are
Addicted to OSM
When…

68. When you go to SOTM!

69. When you sponsor SOTM

70. When you sponsor SOTM!!

71. When you organise SOTM!
Tim Waters @tim_waters chippy