Building The OSM Data Report

mapbox.com/ osm-data-report

we know OSM is great

how do we tell everyone else?

The OSM Data Report tells the story of OSM

(especially in the USA)

to start: the themes

Userbase

Data

sound familiar?

a question of making things beautiful

so they are conversations

here's what we made

road updates

Chicago

'Inequality'

bot-mode name expansion

St → Street

21 million miles of roads

toolz!

sometimemachine → d3

planet.osm → python → sqlite → node.js + node-canvas

github.com/ tmcw/sometimemachine

github.com/ tmcw/sometime-scripts

var fs = require('fs');
var moment = require('moment');
var argv = require('optimist').argv;
var sqlite3 = require('sqlite3').verbose();
var db = new sqlite3.Database(argv._[0]);
var bboxes = [];

db.each(('select * from osm_changeset where user_id=451693;'),
    function(err, row) {
    bboxes.push([
        row.min_lon,
        row.min_lat,
        row.max_lon,
        row.max_lat]);
}, function() {
    fs.writeFileSync('bboxes.json', JSON.stringify(bboxes));
});

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/but the real graphic is/

Growth