Abstract:Land cover data is an important source of land use information, which plays an important role in monitoring geographical conditions, climate change research, ecological environment assessment and so on. Taking Guangzhou city in Guangdong province as the study area, by using OSM data, FROM-GLC data and LandSAT-8 remote sensing image data, land cover in the study area has been classified and land cover mapping has been completed. It is showed that the overall accuracy of land cover mapping by using OSM data is high and has usability. But the blank areas of OSM data occupy a large proportion, the number of different elements in the data areas is small, the sample representativeness is not high enough in reference sample selection, and the accuracy of some types of land cover classification is low.