Last week we conducted a workshop at CIT University, which is in Gubbi, Tumkur District. We do such workshops at universities to introduce students to fundamental concepts of open data, open source software, and OpenStreetMap ecosystem.

In this particular workshop, students were introduced to OpenStreetMap, iD editor, the OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager, and Mapbox Studio.

Running the workshop

This was an introductory session - we began with a quick history of the OpenStreetMap project, basics on adding data and tagging various feature using the iD editor, and tying these concepts around fundamental on geography to enhance the understanding of the data on OpenStreetMap.

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We recently built this new tool which shows all amenities in a given area or between two points by dynamically spooling amenities using the overpass API. During the initial stage of the project, my initial though was just to have a POI map for Bengaluru but, we landed up building a map which shows POI’s around the world.

Check this out - POI finder using OpenStreetMap data, it’s a great outcome!

Map Features:

1. Find POIs within a radius of 1km for any point on the map.
2. Highlights all POIs within a radius of 1km for a route between any two points on the map.
3. Filter POIs based on type.
4. Using the Geocoding API, you can go to any place in the world and place a marker and it generates a buffer between the points.

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