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OpenStreetMap Node Density Visualized

Publicadu dae tyr_asd su 27 làmpadas 2013 in English. Ùrtimu agiornamentu su 15 ghennàrgiu 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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Discussion

Cummentu dae aseerel4c26 de su 28 làmpadas 2013 a is 00:13

Thanks! Looks like a to be featured image to me.

Cummentu dae ajmas de su 28 làmpadas 2013 a is 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.

Cummentu dae aseerel4c26 de su 1 trìulas 2013 a is 12:16

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

Cummentu dae tyr_asd de su 1 trìulas 2013 a is 12:38

awesome! :)

Cummentu dae sabas88 de su 1 trìulas 2013 a is 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/

Cummentu dae tyr_asd de su 2 trìulas 2013 a is 00:19

Very good idea! Here you go: http://tyrasd.github.io/osm-node-density/

Cummentu dae aseerel4c26 de su 2 trìulas 2013 a is 02:27

@tyr_asd: wow :-)

Cummentu dae max1e de su 17 làmpadas 2014 a is 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

Cummentu dae tyr_asd de su 17 làmpadas 2014 a is 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…

Cummentu dae max1e de su 17 làmpadas 2014 a is 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

Cummentu dae tyr_asd de su 17 làmpadas 2014 a is 14:33

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

Cummentu dae KyL0VV de su 14 ghennàrgiu 2023 a is 23:23

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

Cummentu dae tyr_asd de su 15 ghennàrgiu 2023 a is 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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