OpenStreetMap
Mapping city (from scratch), railway station & the salt flat of Uyuni
Postat per 5m4u9 a 7 de genièr 2014 en English Darriera actualizacion de 13 de genièr 2014With some time, I decided to improve the map of the city [1], railway station and the salt flat of Uyuni [2].
Uyuni
Uyuni is a city in the southwest of Bolivia [3]. It was founded to house the first largest railway station and major railway junction. Almost every road in the city are separated by a center field. Salt flat of Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat with a pool of brine, which is exceptionally rich in lithium.
Train Cemerety (original photo [4]):
Salt Flat of Uyuni, place appreciated by photographers because you can play with the reflection of puddles of water and lack of perspective (original photo [5]):
Night Sky of Uyuni (by Karla Gachet & Ivan Kashinsky [6]):
The Map
This city will be part of the competition Dakar, I added the much information as possible … since all the previous information was made by tourists.
I removed all previous roads and started from scratch to map. I added most of the hospitals, schools, gas station and places of common use. In the vast majority of the buildings I added 3D tags.
TODO: Points of interest, the surface & number of lanes of the roads and others.
- City of Uyuni: osm.org/#map=15/-20.4597/-66.8262
- Salt Flat of Uyuni: osm.org/relation/1769713
- Islands within the Salt Flat: osm.org/way/137612918 + osm.org/way/43540410
Discussion
Comentari de Richard lo 7 de genièr 2014 a 10:13
Nice work!
Comentari de baditaflorin lo 10 de genièr 2014 a 00:37
It looks great. How long did it take and what was the metodology that you used ?
Comentari de 5m4u9 lo 10 de genièr 2014 a 05:58
@baditaflorin: All I did in two month (10/nov to 07/jan), but the part of editing in JOSM took me one week for salt flat of Uyuni, one week for road/railway routes and 2.5 weeks for city of Uyuni.
It took me a long time to collect official information. Here in Bolivia, there is little official information available on the Internet must be requested in writing to the office of each ministry (transport, tourism, health) in the capital La Paz… located 400km away from where I live (Cochabamba).
In some cases, I resorted to articles published in blogs offering additional information. It helped me a lot the information (map of the city) that was published on the grounds of the Dakar competition.
Regarding methodology:
Repeat this for each category: natural areas, road routes, railway routes, ways and points of interest in the city.
B^)
Comentari de Linhares lo 13 de genièr 2014 a 16:00
Wow!
Comentari de Linhares lo 13 de genièr 2014 a 16:03
The city map is about a hundred times better then Google Maps! Congratulations!