Osmia

About Osmia and the author

The first finished version of Osmia was conceived by 2hu4u on 30^th May 2024. 2hu4u has been one of Australia's most active OpenStreetMap contributors since 2020 and is a big fan of all things free and open source. 2hu4u was, at the time of publication, a postgraduate Geospatial student at Curtin University. 2hu4u's undergraduate education was in Photovoltaics (Solar) energy engineering at University of NSW in Sydney.

The name Osmia is derived from the bee genus, as well as being a pun on "OSM". I thought that it could reference the bee's reputation for collaborative work, but it turns out that this particular bee genus members are solitary and do not actually have workers like honey bees do. I suppose that is amusing too.

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Osmia

Metadata XML (not standard compliant)
The website content is licensed under CC BY 4.0. Datasets derived from OpenStreetMap and data.SA are licensed under Open Database Licence (ODbL) 1.0. The javascript libraries used are listed below.

OpenStreetMap

SA Landuse Map

The dataset served by Osmia is the property of Department for Trade and Investment (South Australia). The dataset Generalised Land Use 2022 (shp) was retrieved from data.SA on 29^th May 2024.

The dataset is licensed under CC BY 4.0 with waiver for Open Database Licence available here
View the dataset landing page
Download the ISO19115 XML

Acknowledgements

Osmia mostly works using the Nominatim and Overpass APIs as well as various JS libraries, including:

Additionally, the following resources have helped with my understanding of Javascript through the development of Osmia:

Matthew Proctor's list of Australian postcodes
W3 Schools tutorials on HTML, JS and CSS
Numerous users on Stack Overflow (See big list of Stack Overflow URLs that have informed my knowledge somewhat)
Ivana Ivánová's Web mapping lecture slides and labs
Various friends of mine; Tim Porritt, Jono Green and Jumail Mundekkat for some JS help and troubleshooting

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