About
OSM Landuse Landcover is a WebGIS application to explore the OpenStreetMap database specifically in terms of landuse and landcover information.
Currently the map is still under development.
Info
- Project lead - Alexander Zipf
- Website - Michael Auer
- Cartographic styling of landuse/landcover overlay - Michael Auer, Janek Voss
- Data of landuse/landcover overlay by OpenStreetMap contibutors, under ODbL.
- Geoserver WMS & MapProxy maintanance - Michael Auer
- PostgreSQL/PostGIS Database with OpenStreetMap Data - Enrico Steiger, Maxim Rylov, Johannes Lauer, Markus Götz, Michael Auer
- Background map by Maxim Rylov - OpenMapSurfer Roads, © OpenStreetMap contributors
- Place Search - powered by Nominatim
OSM keys used for classification
Classification of the landuse/landcover classes are similar to the classification level 2 of the CORINE Landcover classes.
The following OSM keys were used to form the respective class:
residential, garages
1.2. Industrial, commercial and transport unitsrailway, military, aerodrome, industrial, commercial, retail, harbour, port
1.3. Mine, dump and construction sitesquarry, construction, landfill, brownfield
1.4. Artificial, non-agricultural vegetated areasstadium, recreation_ground, golf_course, water_park, sports_center, playground
pitch, village_green, allotments, cemetery, park, zoo, marina, track, garden
greenhouse_horticulture, greenhouse, farmland, farm, farmyard
2.2. Permanent Cropsvineyard, orchard
2.3. Pasturesmeadow
3.1. Forestsconservation, forest, wood
3.2. Shrub and/or herbaceous vegetation associationsgrass, greenfield, scrub, heath, grassland
3.3. Open spaces with little or no vegetationfell, sand, scree, beach, mud, glacier, rock
4.1. Inland wetlandsmarsh, wetland
4.2. Coastal wetlandssalt_pond, tidal
5. Water bodieswater, riverbank, reservoir, basin
Acknowledgements
This work has kindly been supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation (KTS) Heidelberg in the context of establishing the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT).
Terms of use
Overlay tiles of "OSM Landuse Landcover" can be used freely and without charge by any individuals through this website.
If you intend to use tiles or statistics from "OSM Landuse Landcover" services in your own applications please contact us.
Commercial usage of the services provided by "OSM Landuse Landcover" does need approval!
OpenStreetMap data is available under the Open Database License.
Contact
Chair of GIScienceDepartment of Geography
Heidelberg University, Germany
http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/giscience.html
Email:
auer[at]uni-heidelberg.de