ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap
Marten Hogeweg has a great overview on the new ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap.
For a while, ArcGIS users have been able to use the OpenStreetMap (OSM) content as a basemap in ArcGIS Desktop or in web applications thanks to a republishing of this content through ArcGIS Online. After the earthquakes, we have received many requests from users of ArcGIS who want to contribute to OSM, but who prefer to use the editing capabilities of ArcGIS Desktop.
For users of ArcGIS 10 this is now possible using the new free add-on ArcGIS Editor for OpenStreetMap.
This is great news for ArcGIS users and the OpenStreetMap project itself. Users of ESRI ArcGIS Desktop 10 can use ArcMap to edit OpenStreetMap directly. Lowering the entry to editing OpenStreetMap is what will make the whole project stronger, especially here in the United States where ESRI rules the roost. Hopefully we’ll see some local and state governments start giving back to the OSM project.
If Lawrence Welk can play Velvet Underground, ESRI can edit OpenStreetMap. Somehow it just feels right.
How anyone can prefer the editing tools of ArcGIS over QGis or the several flavors of OSM editing environs is beyond me. The worst editing environment has always been ArcGIS. (OK I didnt mind Arc View 3.2 with XTools that much….)
Template based editing was added in 10 and is quite nice.
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.
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.
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.
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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
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!
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?
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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.