What Is OSMX?

The OSMX Project is not just a leap forward in mapping technology; it's a visionary approach to democratizing data, enhancing navigation, and fostering a community-driven model of innovation and contribution. Join us in this journey and be a part of shaping the future of mapping

What problems are we solving?

Open Street Map Data is unsuitable for many commercial applications. The founders of the OSMX project all have backgrounds in the video telematics and route scheduling industries. OSM vector maps are great, but they lack live traffic, historical traffic flow data, low bridge data, and the speed limit data is too inconsistent for commercial use. OSMX will fill the void for these missing data sets.

There is no open-source alternative to Google Street View. OSMX will capture, process and release to the open source community OpenStreetView and OpenStreetView360.

There is no viable commercial OSM offering that can rival HERE and TomTom maps. OSMX will deliver hosted and self-hosted map services that offer a full suite of map tile, search, and routing services and API methods.

Existing providers are expensive, each service is typically a chargeable service, map tiles, search services route planning and route optimisation quickly add up to a hefty cost for any product using these services. OSMX will make premium map data and online services available free of charge for personal and open source projects; commercial users will have access to a full suite of mapping and GIS services on far more competitive terms than with HERE or TomTom.

Existing providers have very low rate limits on core services when using reverse geocding for example, developers have to carefully manage their platforms features to fit within the limitations of mapping providers low rate limits. When these limits are exceeded the costs can be enormous and limit the useability of the solution.

How will we do this?

There are several options that anyone can support the OSMX Project.

Data Capture: Drivers provide high-resolution, ground-level photos using our OSMX driver app.

Data AI Processing: Miners can repurpose their RTX-based mining rigs and make it available for AI processing using our docker-based mining image.

Data Server: Miners can also provide ongoing OSMX map compute nodes, this again uses a docker image that makes use of the miners CPU, GPU and storage to create a decentralised mapping platform to host the OSMX family of services.

As a reward for their contributions, participants receive a digital token named OSMX for initially collecting and processing the map data, and also perpetually each time the data they provided is accessed commercially.

This approach ensures that the economic gains from the worldwide mapping network are distributed amongst those who contribute to its development.

What will we do with all this data?

The map data collected is used to update and extend the OpenStreetMap database with up-to-date road data and attributes such as the number of lanes, speed limit, bridges, and turn restrictions. This data is provided to the open source community at no cost.

OpenStreetView provides a vehicle eye view of roads for all captured regions. Users can navigate forwards and backwards, automatically, transitioning between high resolution captures. This service is free of charge for personal and open source use. Commercial users have access this service from a subscription plan.

OpenStreetView360 provides a Google StreetView alternative. This requires contributors to use dedicated 360 image capture hardware. This service is free of charge for personal and open source use. Commercial users have access this service from a subscription plan.

OpenStreetTraffic is both a live and historic traffic dataset. The live traffic provides color coded vector overlay tiles for the visualisation of traffic flow, along with real time traffic incident data. The historic data set provides a 365 day a year traffic flow data at every 15 minutes of each day. This historic data set is available as an API service and is also used in the route planning and optimisation services of OSMX Compass.

OSMX-Compass is our multi-platform server solution that is available for both free and commercial users, hosted by our map serving miner community, forming a serverless decentralized and fault tolerant suite of mapping and GIS services.

Alternatively, OSMX-Compass will be available as a self hosted platform for users and companies to manage their own map service deployments.

OSMX-Compass provides:

• Map Tile Server - Vector and image tiles for specific regions or the entire globe.

• Search Service - Forward and reverse geocoding along with fuzzy text search

• Telematics Service - High performance batch reverse geocoding and route fitting of GPS traces.

• Route Planner - Point to point with via stop routing, live and historic traffic data sets are used for accurate travel times where available.

• Route Optimiser - Comprehensive multi vehicle fleet route optimiser and API service for distance/time matrix calculation which also uses live and historic traffic data sets where available.