Hacker News with Generative AI: OpenStreetMap

Loading the World OpenStreetMap Import in Under 4 Hours (crunchydata.com)
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) database builds almost 750GB of location data from a single file download. OSM notoriously takes a full day to run.

OpenStreetMap, Databases, Data Import, Performance Optimization

16 points by todsacerdoti 1 day ago | 0 comments

OpenStreetMap's New Vector Tiles (marksblogg.com)
OpenStreetMap (OSM) has been hosting raster tiles of its dataset for much of its 20-year history.

Mapping, OpenStreetMap, Vector Tiles

479 points by marklit 2 days ago | 146 comments

Statistical NLP on OpenStreetMap (2016) (medium.com)
Street addresses are among the more quirky artifacts of human language, yet they are crucial to the increasing number of applications involving maps and location.

OpenStreetMap

5 points by gregsadetsky 14 days ago | 0 comments

VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack (versatiles.org)
VersaTiles is a completely FLOSS stack for generating, distributing, and using map tiles based on OpenStreetMap data, free of any commercial interests.

Open Source, Mapping, OpenStreetMap

182 points by moooo99 32 days ago | 21 comments

Openly Licensed Streetview with Panoramax (tzovar.as)
Street-level images are not just a great way to virtually explore places (or for playing the not-so-occasional round of GeoGuessr), but are also extremely useful for providing detailed local information when contributing to OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap, Mapping, Software, Virtual Exploration

105 points by maelito 74 days ago | 31 comments

RGCosm – Reverse Geocode for OpenStreetMap (github.com/punnerud)
Locally hosted OpenStreetmap using sqlite3 for reverse geocode. So you easily can find adresses based on coordinates.

OpenStreetMap, Reverse Geocoding, Geolocation, SQLite3

46 points by punnerud 76 days ago | 6 comments

OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20 (stevecoast.substack.com)

OpenStreetMap, Mapping, Anniversaries

470 points by gemanor 102 days ago | 138 comments

Show HN: Simple Mbtiles Server – Self-host the entire planet of OpenStreetMaps (github.com/markuman)

OpenStreetMap, Mapping, Software, Self-Hosting

203 points by markuman123 106 days ago | 77 comments

Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap (wcedmisten.fyi)

Open source, OpenStreetMap, Tools, Mapping

115 points by wcedmisten 107 days ago | 9 comments

Dear AI Companies, instead of scraping OpenStreetMap, how about a $10k donation? (osm.town)