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David Gilbertson
David Gilbertson

Reputation: 4883

How do I see the most recent Open Street Maps in mapbox

I'm using mapbox-gl-js to overlay a campus map for a university. The buildings shown in Mapbox look like this: enter image description here

But if I look on Open Street Map's site (openstreetmap.org), that version has much better buildings (that more closely reflect reality and therefore fit nicely with my campus map that I want to overlay).

enter image description here

I thought that Mapbox used OSM, so why doesn't it show the same buildings? Is the Mapbox data old, it says the Streets maps are updated as frequently as every five minutes? Is it the Mapbox style showing something different to the buildings I see in OSM?

The most important question for me is, if I edit OSM (to fix up this campus), will the change be visible in my Mapbox maps?

For reference, the location: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-33.88341/151.20063

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1630

Answers (2)

scai
scai

Reputation: 21509

MapBox stopped importing OSM data for now, either partly or completely. The details are not publicly known. See https://gis.stackexchange.com/a/257411/23837 and https://twitter.com/Anonymaps/status/913812009547902978.

If you need to show more recent OSM data then switch to a different OSM tile provider. switch2osm.org has a list of commercial OSM tile providers. Alternatively you can render tiles yourself.

Upvotes: 1

Steve Bennett
Steve Bennett

Reputation: 126517

Mapbox's "Mapbox Streets" layer is derived from OpenStreetMap, with substantial processing. There is not, afaik, any public indication of exactly how often the data processing jobs are run. But from memory:

  • different layers are processed on different timelines (roads are updated more frequently than land boundaries, for instance)
  • some of the layers are only processed every few months

Changes that you make in OSM will eventually be visible in Mapbox.

It's also possible that what you're seeing is not out of date OSM data, but a result of the processing of OSM data into vector tiles, which can result in simplification.

You might find this blog post I wrote helpful: "OpenStreetMap vector tiles: mixing and matching engines, schemas and styles"

Upvotes: 3

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