Free and Open Palestine

Free and Open Palestine

Mikel MaronSOTM

2009 Jul 11

Complete Roads and POIin West Bank

and Gaza

JumpStart Mapping Palestinesustainable economic development

Jordan??

we are missingNeutral Geographic Context

http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

Bethlehem August 2008Engineers without Borders

Engineering Association

Testing Our Mapping Assumptions

Not Easy!Security/ Heat!/

Volunteers to Job Creation

Cartography

There's no Beyt Sahour Zoo

Mappers!

From Hebron to Ramallah to Jenin

PartnersAtlas, NC4D, ARIJ, PCBS, Relief Intl

The State of the MapsPaper Maps, Geodata Sharing, Piracy

JumpStart is Public Domain(we ran our own server, tiles, etc)

ESRItracing, integration, familiarity, jobs

wfs-t interfaceopen up to GIS pros

despite that, Much happiness

the first “Palestinian Spy Satellite”

(kite photography)

Gaza January 2009no decent maps anywhere

Call out for help

Yahoo! imagery

Tidal wave

Collect existing data sourcesand free data

UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News

OCHA closures, closed

EC, UNOSAT opened

Southern GazaRemote Mappers, 7 days

Fundraiser for Imagery5k GBP in days

2m, mid-Januaryfrom Digital Globe

JumpStart entersGaza in March

local knowledge

Gaza City yesterday

And now...

Import Processfrom JumpStart to OSM

merge, quality correctiontalk-ps, talk-il

reboot community!

Conflicts?name, name:ar, name:he

settlements

Import to Navteq/TeleAltas,G-Y-M, UN, etc

?

Applications and Use

Map Cake!

Nationalized Routing

Arabic Maps

InsideGaza, InsideWestBank

SocialGeo

H.O.THumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Tehran - Map Kibera

SOTM Scholarships

Anas Maraqa

Complete Roads and POIin West Bank

and Gaza

Thank you!

Mikel Maronmikel@osmfoundation.org

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?s=gaza+openstreetmap

http://jumpstart-mapping.blogspot.com/