Comments on: ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap

By: Steven Vance

Steven Vance — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:42:39 +0000

TriMet, Portland, Oregon’s transit operator, is hiring a GIS intern to help the agency improve the OSM and the open source trip planner.
http://agency.governmentjobs.com/trimet/default.cfm?action=viewJob&jobID=270032

By: Marten

Marten — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:12:29 +0000

The ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap is now available as open source add-on through codeplex: http://esriosmeditor.codeplex.com/ If you want to contribute to documentation, best practices, or code, send your codeplex account to mhogeweg at esri dot com and I can add you to the list of contributors.

By: Larry

Larry — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:45:53 +0000

Hoo. Zay doo zat chustice, dat songs dere.

By: Adcon

Adcon — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:42:46 +0000

Do we think ESRI will eventually try and use OSM as the base data for the ArcGIS Online services in order to avoid paying license fees to NAVTEQ/TeleAtlas?

By: kimo

kimo — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:54:21 +0000

The install is just fine. It’s the new extension tool system. But the help does need to step people through the usage. I have got it to work by sheer curiosity.

You don’t see any editing toolbars until you download some data using the Geoprocessing Tool “Download OSM Data” that is in the …Program Files (x86)/ESRI/OSM Editor/data/OpenStreetMap Toolbox.tbx

When you do this make sure that you only select a small area because the limit is 5000 “nodes”, about a suburb’s worth of centrelines.

There is a useful OSM Feature Symboliser that adds colours to the many layers from the standard tags (by convention).

Once you start editing the layers downloaded into a geodatabase then menus pop up when editing. Maybe these are not OSM specific, all ArcGIS 10 editing is new. There is one menu that is able to be opened, but its disabled for me.

In my area the data is extremely sparse, no road names and really very weak. Its not a geodatabase as we know it… OSM needs our help!

By: Matt C

Matt C — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:28:51 +0000

I am also having problems with the install. All it seems to do is install the documentation. There is no toolbox added to ArcMap.

I am trying to install it on a WIN7 64bit box so I am not sure if thats the issue or not.

Thanks,
Matt

By: new jersey geographer » Blog Archive » ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap

new jersey geographer » Blog Archive » ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:58:26 +0000

[...] data from and contribute to OpenStreetMap. Marten Hogeweg announced the tool and news spread pretty quickly. While I agree with the favorable reception the tool has received, it’s still in need of [...]

By: Mike O

Mike O — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:27:52 +0000

Seems like a great set of tools, although I’ve had trouble getting them to install. Installation only appears to install the documentation, which is sparse. Why doesn’t ESRI have anything other than a download of the installer to support it? I haven’t found anything on their site.

By: John Reiser

John Reiser — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:46:27 +0000

I’ve been working with the OSM Editor and while it’s been great to finally have a tool to download a custom extent of OSM data and convert to geodatabase feature classes, the upload tool leaves much to be desired. I played with it for about an hour with no luck and had to rely on a packet sniffer for clues as to what’s wrong.

By: wwnick

wwnick — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:13:58 +0000

Wow, this is great. I’ve edited a bit in OSM, but found the experience with Potlatch and the free Yahoo! imagery to be poor.

http://gis.apfo.usda.gov/ArcGIS/rest/services/NAIP
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ArcGIS Editor for OSM

Awesome

While this should help with imagery licensing issues, hope that ESRI makes the derivative work license free and clear.