Palestine West Bank Free Map Introduction

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FreeMap West Bank

Mikel MaronBethlehem

August 15, 2008

About MEbrainoff.com

MapufactureHelping Build the GeoWeb mapufacture.com

WaterWikifirst public UN wikiwaterwiki.net

OpenStreetMap Foundation Board MemberBrighton, UKDeveloping World

“building digital technology for our planet”

= +

what is openstreetmap? the openstreetmap “one-liner”

animation...

WHY?

mapping data is not free

full of mistakes, car-centered

mistakes can't be corrected

can't re-use, or print

economics rules coverage

Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

Change happens too fast...

Disasters

Olympics

Times Atlas

SERIOUSLY!

UK – complete with the next 1-2 years

Europe in GPS points

Contours in Slovakia

OpenPisteMap

OSM Cycle Map

OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

Osnabrück – a freed city

Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM

OpenStreetMap in flickr

Sponsors

Corporate Uses

cloudmadeitonestoriaCadCorp

OSM FoundationState of the Map Conference

Companies tapping the crowd

Google Map Maker

AND maps2.0

Donated Data and Free Data

AND Netherlands Donation

City of Merano

TIGER/Line

And more ...

Sudan from the UN, Canada, New Zealand, Falkland Islands...

Or just get on with it!

upcoming parties

JumpStart International andFreeMap West Bank

* Public Domain Data* Seperate server* Import into OSM at conclusion for ongoing maintenance and improvement

http://westbank.freemap.in/

TECH

RESTful API+ simple data format+ tagging for metadata+ standard map tiles

= thriving ecosystem of renderers, editors..

API(Rails)

Potlatch(Flash)

JOSM(Java)

Database

...

Renderer

Mapnik

tiles@home

osmarender,pdfatlas,

...

planetdump

MySQL

Viewer

SlippyMap

(OpenLayers)

“Google”tiles

“Google”tiles

Editors

Rendering, etc.

Mapstraction...one API to cover them all, incl OSM

BRIGHTON, case study

Mapping Party, September 2006

OSM Brighton, December 2006

Winter 2007

TodaySummer 2007

Today

1.0

My Process

Download existing data to GPS

Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

Network Diagram

Upload Tracks

Draw Over Them

Our first edit war, Cyprus

Disputes

Disputes

OpenStreetMap database is fully localizable!

We can represent multiple views of the world.

OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

The Developing World (ala OSM)

Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

“we feel that communities can harness the power of new geo-spatial imaging and mapping technologies

to strengthen their demands for

secure tenure and housing rightsopen and vibrant public spaces and ecological conservation and sustainable development

in the mega-city.”

LOLCows! Moooove!

Military and Security

Myanmar Sudan Bolivia

Baghdad North Korea

PhillipinesSouthern Africa

GPSTogo

The Possibilities & Applications

navigation (Bangalore Startups)

urban planning, redevelopment, empowerment (CRIT/PUKAR)

political participation

agriculture (Trivandrum Agriculture Department)

ecology (Biodiversity Survey, Madhav Gadgil)

riverbank erosion in West Bengal (WBUT)

humanitarian response

tracking taxis/safety

data collection for rural development, and models for transitioning to open GIS data collection (professor shah's project)

monitoring rainfall, collecting and disseminating data to forms, calculating land use

unchecked mining operations in the north of West Bengal humanitarian response

WE WILL MAP BETHLEHEM!

WE WILL MAP THE WEST BANK!

WE WILL MAP THE WORLD!

THANK YOU!

mikel@osmfoundation.orghttp://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/

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