List of featured images/2009

These are featured images, which have been identified as the best examples of OpenStreetMap mapping, or as useful illustrations of the OpenStreetMap project.

~~If you know another image of similar quality, you can nominate it on Featured image proposals.~~

See also: List of featured images/2008 and List of featured images/2010

2009

Week 1
(29 Dec. – 4 Jan.)

English	A frame from 'OSM 2008 - A year of edits'. Other stills available on Flickr. Animation on the ITO Vimeo site from midnight (Australia time) on Dec 31st.

Week 2
(5–11 Jan.)

English	Postcodes in London, as displayed on the postcode map

Week 3
(12–18 Jan.)

English	Railways in the UK are now available on OpenTrainMap and on OSM UK rail network map

Week 4
(19–25 Jan.)

English	The Naga City GIS released their data to public domain and is now imported to OSM. All roads, railways, rivers and buildings.

Week 5
(26 Jan. – 1 Feb.)

English	Map of Tartu, the green University town in Estonia were contributed by the City Government

Week 6
(2–8 Feb.)

English	Where-can-i-live uses OSM maps to display houses within a certain commute time of work

Week 7
(9–15 Feb.)

English	A hiking map is available, showing the relief and contours of the landscape, and highlighting paths and trails (Note: Now seems to be described at DE:OSMC Reitkarte)

Week 8
(16–22 Feb.)

English	osmdiff is a program to visualize and report changes in an area (e.g. see osmdiff reports)

Week 9
(23 Feb. – 1 Mar.)

English	Colombian mappers in the Ruiz Volcano (view map)

Week 10
(2–8 Mar.)

English	http://www.norc.ro is a service similar to Google StreetView, offered by a Romanian company. They are using OpenStreetMap as an overlay to display the panoramas (only for Romania at higher zoom levels for now). They also donated 16 GB of GPS logs and gave us permission to derive data from their images.

Week 11
(9–15 Mar.)

English	GroundTruth is a new mapmaking tool for converting OSM data into Garmin maps. This featured image is a collage of various screenshots taken from MapSource, a Garmin unit and from Wiki pages containing rendering rules.

Week 12
(16–22 Mar.)

English	Computer Science students at the University of Maryland have created a pedestrian routing map based on OpenStreetMap data. Support is even included for wheel friendly routing, and avoiding certain areas.

Week 13
(23–29 Mar.)

English	OSM-3D view of Dresden from a Java 3D Map at http://www.geographie.uni-bonn.de/karto/osm-3d/screenshots.en.htm

Week 14
(30 Mar. – 5 Apr.)

English	With the recently finished ABS Import of suburb boundary data, all of Australia has relatively up-to-date suburb boundary information. Image shows progress of import in Brisbane area, created using OSM Mapper.

Week 15
(6–12 Apr.)

English	Routing plugin for JOSM

Week 16
(13–19 Apr.)

English	GroundTruth-generated relief contours map for Garmin GPS units. The elevation data source is SRTM. This is a MapSource screenshot of map tiles. See here for more info.

Week 17
(20–26 Apr.)

English	CloudMade's routing API gives turn-by-turn directions for vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians - all powered by OSM data (shown: route around Googleplex)

Week 18
(27 Apr. – 3 May)

English	The building and open space layers from MassGIS for large swathes of Massachusetts have been imported thanks to effort by User:crschmidt and others in the region.

Week 19
(4–10 May)

English	Sir Tim Berners-Lee recently received both a doctor honoris causa award (for his outstanding contributions to the WWW ) and a hi-viz vest (for his outstanding mentions of OSM )

Week 20
(11–17 May)

English	TopOSM is a topographic view of OSM data

Week 21
(18–24 May)

English	MapAnalyst is an open source tool for distortion analysis in old maps, that uses OSM as a the default reference cartography. (Shown here: 1:50k map of Madrid dated from 1875)

Week 22
(25–31 May)

English	The first GPS device donated by the OSM Foundation's GPStogo scheme at the mapping party and conference in Neiva Colombia

Week 23
(1–7 Jun.)

English	The Sunderland Mapping Party being an example of the successful Mapping parties idea. Sunderland was chosen from the UK Mapping Priorities list.

Week 24
(8–14 Jun.)

English	A printed map of Birmingham is available thanks to the Mappa Mercia subproject

Week 25
(15–21 Jun.)

English	A "heat-map" of OpenStreetMap complexity worldwide (Tah-heatmap)

Week 26
(22–28 Jun.)

English	The HaptoRender project has created the first tactile map using OpenStreetMap data.

Week 27
(29 Jun. – 5 Jul.)

English	The osmlive service shows worldwide OSM edits in delayed real-time. This image shows the result of a typical 24 hours of activity.

Week 28
(6–12 Jul.)

English	Trafficman Maps From Android 1.0 Released - create OSM from your T-Mobile G1

Week 29
(13–19 Jul.)

English	A multi-scale density visualization shows vessel movements in front of Rotterdam harbor. More info and large-scale overlays: Visualization of vessel movements by Niels Willems, Huub van de Wetering and Jarke J. van Wijk

Week 30
(20–26 Jul.)

English	Group photo from State Of The Map 2009. Watch the videos of each talk, see photos, slides, videos, and links

Week 31
(27 Jul. – 2 Aug.)

English	3D terrain view of a route from http://www.osm-3d.org

Week 32
(3–9 Aug.)

English	Palestine mappers (see their map, or SotM presentation)

Week 33
(10–16 Aug.)

English	Sea marks (e.g. buoys) are now rendered on the OpenSeaMap

Week 34
(17–23 Aug.)

English	View the map in Irish (parks in Baile Átha Cliath being shown on Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason's experimental wikipedia rendering), or some other language.

Week 35
(24–30 Aug.)

English	Cycle networks in Perth. Add more routes using the cycle tagging

Week 36
(31 Aug. – 6 Sep.)

English	Black rock city, from Burning Man

Week 37
(7–13 Sep.)

English	Dolomiti Mapping Party three days on the Chain of the Brenta's Dolomites. Here we are at Tuckett alpine hut

Week 38
(14–20 Sep.)

English	Camp Delta in US naval base Guantánamo Bay (wiki)

Week 39
(21–27 Sep.)

English	A tourist map of the Gaza strip! Would you ever see this from a commercial map?

Week 40
(28 Sep. – 4 Oct.)

English	Peculiar spiral street arrangement in the Pineta area of Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy (map)

Week 41
(5–11 Oct.)

English	Bethlehem mappers (see map, SotM presentation, WikiProject)

Week 42
(12–18 Oct.)

English	The Hüttenbach tourism association posted 12 printed maps of their area

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