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amosproj / amos2021ws01-geo-data-search

Natural language and buzzword search on routing and places
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Evaluate OpenStreetMap #75

Closed oliviadargel closed 2 years ago

oliviadargel commented 2 years ago

Was kann die API Passt die Lizenz Passen die Anforderungen

User story

  1. As a PO
  2. I want to have a list of capabilities for the Openstreetmap API
  3. So that the team and the stakeholders know the limits and capabilities of Openstreetmap and can plan the features supported by the app

Acceptance criteria

chrisjherm commented 2 years ago

To be able to use OSM, you first have to register, which I have done.

OSM is accessible via Overpass API which uses specialized "Wizard Queries" what seems to be a query-language. This would mean additional effort.

I could find a Java-Project on GitHub "osmapi" which could help us using Overpass API in Java but it still requires to learn the wizard query language: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API/Language_Guide

Also this video may be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9QI4AfwHoM&t=1186s

OSM with Overpass API is pretty powerful but however, I was still unable to find topographical features like rivers, mountains, hills, valleys.

At this point, I would suggest, that OSM is a little bit more powerful than HERE, but needs more effort to get familiar with. Also there is a lot of documentation and frameworks which I did not managed to overview.

Frameworks: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Frameworks General: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API

License: OSM/Overpass in read-only mode is free to use and there should be no problem regarding our open source project.