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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”
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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!
