OSM REPORTER

OpenStreetMap-Based Scholar Project for Capturing Building Footprints in Swellendam.

Here at Kartoza we are strong advocates of Open Source software and Open Data. The

OpenStreetMap project (http://www.openstreetmap.org/) is a great platform for community

contributed mapping data. Kartoza initiated a scholar project to capture building footprints for

Swellendam using OpenStreetMap. To aid this, we built the open source OSM-reporter tool to

provide details of contributor levels in a given area. The project was subsequently taken up by

others (e.g. the Humanitarian OpenStreetmapTeam) who contributed additional functionality.