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State of the Map 2009
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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 [email protected]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?s=gaza+openstreetmap
http://jumpstart-mapping.blogspot.com/
