The story about why and how companies are making the switch from google maps to openstreetmap By Tim Waters at LSxCafe, leeds, UK. 6 march 2012

1. Switch2OSM
The story about why sites are moving
away from Google Maps.
Tim Waters tim@geothings.net
@tim_waters

2. Switch2OSM

3. Nestoria.co.uk

5. StreetEasy

6. Toursprung / Bikemap

7. Fubra / World-airport-codes.com

10. Foursquare.com
not mobile... yet

12. Why?
Push, Pull, other reasons?

13. Push
Google Pricing Model
Anonymous Site: $10 per 1000 page views. But no one pays that, of course. If you don't get a contract, then above the first free 25,000 views,
you pay $4 per 1000. And we got them to quote us to about $2, maybe $1.80. In our case, that meant paying $200,000-$400,000 a year for
maps.
Geocaching: 2,000,000 google map hits a day. Around $1 Million a year
Taking traffic away from Google
Foursquare - competition?
Styling limited
Not much value add

14. Pull
Prettier maps.
More freedom with source data.
Up to date maps.
More detailed maps - (footpaths, cyclepaths)
Cheaper
Open source & data supporter
Place database - foursquare?

15. Other reasons?
Value of the basemap
To become OSM trusted company - have a say
To leverage users to improve OSM and
improve product. place db?

16. Google is good!
Conferences
OpenStreetMap Servers
Google Summer of Code

17. Google Mapmaker
Not global
(No UK)
No data
Not properly
free

18. OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a free editable map of the whole world. It is made by
people like you.
OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a
collaborative way from anywhere on Earth

19. How?

20. How?
Data
Tiles
Display

21. Do It Yourself. For
example:
Tiles from Mapquest
Showing Tiles in OpenLayers / Leaflet
OR
Get Data.
Get Mapnik
Create stylesheet
Make tiles

24. Toolkits - TileDrawer
EC2 AMI

25. Tookits - MapBox

26. Tookits - MapBox

27. Toolkits - TileMill

28. TileMill Features

29. Others
MapQuest - Tile host
CloudMade - Map style editor
GeoFabrik
Dev Seed
Stamen
me

30. Switch2OSM.org
Why Switch
Case Studies
Basics
Using Tiles
Serving Tiles
Providers
Geocoding
Routing
Tim Waters tim@geothings.net
@tim_waters