Environmental OSM

Natural environment features

Environmental OSM is a project to map out various systems that have an impact on the environment in hopes of helping to solve environmental problems.

Please use the discussion page to suggest and discuss other data we might survey and other uses for the data.

Objectives

The following are some objectives of the Environmental OSM project:

• Improve the tagging schema for environmental data
• Define a strategy for surveying and providing this data throughout the wide environmental sector
• Create specific maps for specialist environmental uses

Tags

Energy

• Energy generators: power=generator (using generator:source=*, generator:method=* and generator:output=* to specify environmentally friendly technologies)
• Dirty energy / fossil fuels: man_made=petroleum_well

Built environment features

Environmental monitoring

• Environmental monitoring stations: man_made=monitoring_station

Waste/recycling

• Recycling bins, containers or centres (including for organic/green/garden waste): amenity=recycling
  • Use recycling:*=yes/no to specify the type(s) of waste
• Recycling centres: amenity=waste_transfer_station
• Reuse: amenity=public_bookcase, reusable_packaging:accept=*, reusable_packaging:offer=*
• Second-hand items: shop=second_hand, shop=charity, second_hand=* (for finer tagging)

See the CircularEconomy WikiProject for more tagging related to recycling, reusing, sharing and repairing.

Food

• Allotments: landuse=allotments
• Farms: landuse=farm
• Food markets: amenity=marketplace using sub-tags such as vegetables=yes
• Diets: diet:vegan=* and diet:vegetarian=*

See Food security for related guidelines and ideas

Transport

See also: sustainable transport on Wikipedia

• Cycling
  • Cycle paths/lanes: highway=cycleway and cycleway=*
  • amenity=bicycle_parking and bicycle_parking=*
  • amenity=bicycle_rental
  • shop=bicycle
• Car sharing/clubs: amenity=car_sharing
• Railways (including underground, overground, tram, light rail, etc.)
  • Rail lines, stations, etc.: railway=*
  • Routes
• Buses
  • Routes

Natural habitats / land use

• Recommendations for tagging of protected areas is outlined here: boundary=protected_area
• Trees natural=tree
• Unmanaged forests natural=wood
• Managed forests landuse=forest
• Page for approved natural=* and landuse=* tags: Vegetation

Green space

Green space access heatmap (hotter is further distance). A heatmap of Edinburgh showing access to leisure facilities, using OpenStreetMap data. From an idea by Hawkeye created by stevefaeembra.

• Medway greenspaces
• MassGis Layer Openspace

Environmental features in development

• Species/Genus names have been proposed in natural=tree but taxon=* has also been proposed.

  species=* tag has been used thousands of times and taxon=* much less often. See Tree discussion page

• Vegetation coverage values for areas have been proposed at the bottom of taxon=*
• Plant communities (National Vegetation Classification) proposal outlined in plant_community=*
• Habitat mapping proposal based on the Phase One Habitat survey in the habitat=* page

Todo:

• Tagging the regulation of living modified organisms (LMO) including genetically modified organisms (GMO) — in French organismes génétiquement modifiés (OGM).

Related initiatives

OpenStreetMap

• Ramsar Wetland data source imports
• London allotments "import"
• OpenEcoMaps, e.g. Foraging for food map
• Invasive non-native species
• Environmental OSM: what can trees tell us about climate change?
• Corine Land Cover import
• Environmental OSM academic research at the National University of Maynooth
• OpenHabitatMap Edinburgh, Scotland
• Massachusetts State GIS import
• EEA:Nationally designated areas import
• WikiProject African National Parks and Reserves
• Environmental-OSM: What can trees tell us about climate change?
• OSM > DWC > GBIF : Volunteered OSM - biodiversity data compatible with GBIF - Please verify contributions from "People Interested" (in the present page, below).
• OpenHazardMap
• Sustainable Map [1] [2]

Other

• World Database On Protected Areas and the Protected Planet interface by UNEP
• UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, for regulating the usage of living modified organisms (LMO) including genetically modified organisms (GMO), and of other biotechnologies, and for developing the sustainable agriculture and food security for health and preservation of resources and biodiversity.
• European Environment Agency data and maps
• The Nature Conservancy Atlas of Global Conservation
• Mapping for change
• Farming Concrete
• Forest Carbon Portal
• Renewables Map UK
• Spatial Informatics Group: Environmental Mapping
• EcologicalData.org
• Open Data Platform by Footprint Network
• WikiProject Environment - a Wikipedia Project where we might be able to find other netizens willing to help this project.
• Open2. greenmap, possibly Seems to be a map-based index of green maps, plus various other stuff e.g. links to data on lighthouses (?)

People interested

People Interested in Environmental OSM

User page	Languages	Location	Skills and interests
Sam Larsen	English	New Zealand
TomChance		UK
Maning Sambale	English	Philippines
Hawkeyes	English	Scotland
Marscot	English	Scotland
Brylie Oxley
Grow Bradford
Werner Leyh
Markus Gastauer
Ana Lucia Zandomeneghi
Paul Mackay
Ariosto Pacheco
Pomin Wu
Rosangela Ferreira dos Santos
Arun Ganesh
Aline Gomes Zaffani
Johnattan Rupire	Spanish
Sandra Cavalcante	Portuguese, English	Brazil	IT analyst, lawyer, environmental law specialist and PHD in Public Health
Angela Miazaki
Jamie Gray § Environment	English	USA	UI / UX Design, Project Management
Sergey Golubev	Russian, English	Russia	Naturalist, cartographer, specialist in the study of the environment and vegetation
Stéphane Guillou	French, English, Spanish	Australia
Jolesh	English, German, Danish, Esperanto	Europe

Contact

• Talk:Environmental OSM
• mailing list focused on mapping of natural features and outdoor sports