A brief overview of some of the technical options evaluated in our switch to OpenStreetMap maps. Presented on 16th of February, 2012 at London Geomob event: http://geomobldn.org

1. How Nestoria switched to OSM
Ed Freyfogle
#geomob - 16 Feb 2012

2. Who am I?
• Co-founder of Nestoria
• Property search engine
– find a place to buy or rent
– 2-3M users / month
– 8 countries
– founded 2006
– 13 employees

7. We are the 0.35%

8. We’ve always loved OSM

10. How to switch?
• All OSM or mix of providers?
• Render and serve our own tiles?
• How to display?
• Mobile?

11. Build our own?

12. One massive negative
A complex machine
to operate well
Not just tech - design
and ops

13. Let someone else do the tile
making/serving for us
Global CDN, actively developing
Customize tiles
Only for minimal hobby use

14. Possible tech stacks
DATA TILES MIDDLEWARE DISPLAY

15. And the winner is…
DATA TILES MIDDLEWARE DISPLAY
global CDN, flexibility, active development

16. TMTOWTDI
http://blog.untogether.co.uk/post/17554554409/i-had-no-idea-how-to-make-custom-maps-so-i-learnt-by

17. switch2osm.org

18. User reaction?
expectation of Google maps?
No significant feedback, positive or negative

19. The future?
DATA TILES DISPLAY
Make your own
easier and easier
Others?

22. Thanks!
OSM community
FOSS geo devs
MapQuest
Cloudmade

23. Learn more
http://www.nestoria.com
@nestoria
@freyfogle
We’re hiring: http://www.lokku.com/jobs/