Tag: Unmapped

  • Unmapped Places of the OpenStreetMap World – 2024

    Unmapped Places of the OpenStreetMap World – 2024

    In 2010, I first conducted a study which identified regions (places) in the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project in Germany that still had potential for more detailed mapping. Later, in 2016, this analysis was repeated and extended to the entire world. I have since regularly carried out these studies and published the results. The algorithm and some…

  • Unmapped Places of OpenStreetMap – 2016

    Back in 2010 & 2011 I conducted several studies to detect underrepresented regions a.k.a. “unmapped” places in OpenStreetMap (OSM). More than five years later, some people asked if I could rerun the analysis …

  • Updated Status for Unmapped Places

    The last unmapped places analysis for OpenStreetMap that I conducted is nearly eight months ago. So I figured it was about time to create a new one …

  • The Return of “Unmapped Places in OSM EU”

    At the moment (March 11th, 2011) we have (according to the Geofabrik extract) 505091 places in OpenStreetmap Europe …

  • “Unmapped” Places in Europe?

    Recently some new posts on the German OpenStreetMap-Mailing-List regarding the coverage of yet undetected regions in OpenStreetMap have been accumulating, caused by the current clearance of the BING-aerial images. In one of my former blog posts that I wrote back in August this year, I introduced an analysis that included the search for “places” such…