Palestine West Bank Free Map Introduction

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  • 1. FreeMap West Bank Mikel Maron Bethlehem August 15, 2008

2. About ME brainoff.com Mapufacture Helping Build the GeoWeb mapufacture.com WaterWiki first public UN wiki waterwiki.net OpenStreetMapFoundation Board Member Brighton, UK Developing World building digital technology for our planet 3. = + what is openstreetmap?the openstreetmap one-liner 4. 5. animation... 6. WHY? 7. mapping data is not free 8. full of mistakes, car-centered 9. mistakes can't be corrected 10. can't re-use, or print 11. economics rules coverage 12. Not Free (as in Freedom) 13. Change happens too fast... 14. Disasters 15. Olympics 16. Times Atlas 17. SERIOUSLY! 18. 19. 20. UK complete with the next 1-2 years 21. Europe in GPS points 22. Contours in Slovakia 23. OpenPisteMap 24. OSM Cycle Map 25. OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices 26. Osnabrck a freed city 27. Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM 28. OpenStreetMap in flickr 29. Sponsors 30. cloudmade ito nestoria CadCorp Corporate Uses 31. OSM Foundation State of the Map Conference 32. Companies tapping the crowd 33. Google Map Maker 34. AND maps2.0 35. Donated Data and Free Data 36. AND Netherlands Donation 37. City of Merano 38. TIGER/Line 39. And more ... Sudan from the UN, Canada,New Zealand,Falkland Islands... 40. Or just get on with it! 41. upcoming parties 42. JumpStart International and FreeMap West Bank * Public Domain Data * Seperate server * Import into OSM at conclusion for ongoing maintenance and improvement http://westbank.freemap.in/ 43. TECH 44. RESTful API + simple data format + tagging for metadata + standard map tiles 45. = thriving ecosystemof renderers, editors.. 46. API (Rails) Potlatch (Flash) JOSM (Java) Database ... Renderer Mapnik tiles@ home osmarender, pdfatlas, ... planet dump MySQL Viewer Slippy Map (Open Layers) Google tiles Google tiles Editors Rendering, etc. 47. Mapstraction ...one API to cover them all, incl OSM 48. BRIGHTON, case study 49. Mapping Party, September 2006 50. OSM Brighton, December 2006 51. Winter 2007 52. Today Summer 2007 53. Today 54. 1.0 55. My Process 56. Download existing data to GPS 57. Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle 58. Network Diagram 59. Upload Tracks 60. Draw Over Them 61. Our first edit war, Cyprus 62. Disputes 63. Disputes 64. OpenStreetMap database is fully localizable! We can represent multiple views of the world. 65. OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD 66. The Developing World(ala OSM) 67. Betwala Chawl, Mumbai 68. we feel that communities can harness the power of new geo-spatial imaging andmapping technologiesto strengthen their demands forsecure tenure and housing rights open and vibrant public spaces and ecological conservation and sustainable developmentin the mega-city. 69. LOLCows! Moooove! 70. Military and Security 71. Myanmar Sudan Bolivia Baghdad North Korea Phillipines Southern Africa GPSTogo 72. The Possibilities & Applications 73. 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 74. 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 75. WE WILL MAP BETHLEHEM! 76. WE WILL MAP THE WEST BANK! 77. WE WILL MAP THE WORLD! THANK YOU! [email_address] http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/