This is the real power of OpenStreetMap. It’s not just a tiled map, but is actual data that’s free to download and use for any purpose, and cheap to contribute to.
Alex Barth
Alex is an open data strategist, developer, and data lead at Development Seed, a creative data visualization team based in Washington, DC and the company behind the MapBox suite of web mapping tools. In these roles he works on creating better and easier to use data visualization tools, telling stories with data, and expanding the availability of open spatial data through OpenStreetMap. You can follow Alex on Twitter at @lxbarth.