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OpenStreetMap Node Density Visualized

Pubblicato da tyr_asd il 27 giugno 2013 in English. Ultimo aggiornamento il 15 gennaio 2023.

I’ve visualized OpenStreetMap’s node density from Frederik’s analysis of densely mapped locations:

(click for uncropped image - 8192x8192, ~1MB)

Every pixel stands for a single zoom-level 13 tile. The color represents the total number of nodes in that tile. Tiles with less than 1000 nodes are not displayed. A “low-res” version of this visualization is also available, which is based on zoom-level 10 tiles: (click to enlarge)

Copying: visualizations © cc-by-sa - source data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL

How-To

In case anyone is wondering how these were made: I’ve used gnuplot to create the maps, after converting the source data with a simple sed-command. Read more about the actual steps and gnuplot-commands.

Slippy Map Version

There is also a slippy map version (updated yearly)! Check it out. ;)

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Discussione

Commento di ajmas il 28 giugno 2013 alle 13:20

Good job.

Before reading the text, the first thing that this made me think of is the “Earth Lights” image from NASA: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=55167 . Comparing the two shows that the number of nodes does not necessarily correlate with the amount of light produced.

Commento di aseerel4c26 il 1 luglio 2013 alle 12:16

Thank you for those images! They are now featured on our wiki main page this week.

Commento di tyr_asd il 1 luglio 2013 alle 12:38

awesome! :)

Commento di sabas88 il 1 luglio 2013 alle 20:56

Awesome! Could you make a tileset (only low zooms..) like the one by MapBox on the geotagged tweets? http://www.mapbox.com/blog/visualizing-3-billion-tweets/

Commento di aseerel4c26 il 2 luglio 2013 alle 02:27

@tyr_asd: wow :-)

Commento di max1e il 17 giugno 2014 alle 13:34

hi, can you help me with: “convert to simple, gnuplot-readable text format” but from windows? sed-command works in windows console? if yes, how add way to file file.13 ? thanks

Commento di tyr_asd il 17 giugno 2014 alle 14:06

max1e, yes, you should be able to install and run sed also on Windows (ask google). This visualization is done only for nodes because the raw data analysis was done (by Frederik Ramm, username: woodpeck) only for nodes. If you want also ways, you’d have to repeat the analysis step, which could be a quite extensive task, I suppose…

Commento di max1e il 17 giugno 2014 alle 14:26

tyr_asd, can you show me screenshot or attach file (any image hosting, or file hosting) - view of tiles.13.txt inside? (Structure) because i dont understand what done function “s/([0-9]) z=([0-9]) x=([0-9]) y=([0-9])/\3 \4 \1/’”

In windows SED - renamed file from tiles13 to files13.txt, but file inside are empty. thanks

Commento di tyr_asd il 17 giugno 2014 alle 14:33

max1e, sure, I’ll send you a personal message!

Commento di KyL0VV il 14 gennaio 2023 alle 23:23

Is there a newer version since 2020 available? …I am just curious how the entries evolved.

Commento di tyr_asd il 15 gennaio 2023 alle 14:33

@KyZEN: The slippy map version on https://tyrasd.github.io/osm-node-density/ is updated yearly (the last update was in June/July 2022). To compare different years, use the layer selector on the top right of the page.

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