1. FreeMap West Bank
Mikel Maron
Hebron
November 22, 2008

2. About ME
brainoff.com
Mapufacture (now FortiusOne)
Helping Build the GeoWeb
geocommons.com
WaterWiki / Workspaces
first public UN wiki
waterwiki.net
OpenStreetMap
Foundation Board Member
Brighton, UK
Developing World
“building digital technology for our planet”

3. what is openstreetmap?
the openstreetmap “one-liner”
= +

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. West Bank: Access and Closures

18. SERIOUSLY!

21. UK – complete with the next 1-2 years

22. Europe in GPS points

23. Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM

24. OpenStreetMap in flickr

25. Sponsors

26. Corporate Uses
cloudmade
ito
nestoria
CadCorp

27. OSM Foundation
State of the Map Conference

28. Companies tapping the crowd

29. Google Map Maker

30. AND maps2.0

31. Pretty Maps

32. Contours in Slovakia

33. OpenPisteMap

34. OSM Cycle Map

35. OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

36. Donated Data and Free Data

37. AND Netherlands Donation

38. City of Merano

39. TIGER/Line

40. And more ...
Sudan from the UN,
Canada,
New Zealand,
Falkland Islands...

41. Or just get on with it!

42. upcoming parties

43. JumpStart International and
Free Map West Bank
* Public Domain Data
* Separate server
* Import into OSM at conclusion
for ongoing maintenance and improvement
http://westbank.maps.jsintl.org/

44. BETHLEHEM PILOT, August 2008

47. TECH

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

49. = thriving ecosystem
of tools, renderers, editors,
routers, applications

50. Active Community!
50K+ registered
10K monthly editors
Mailing lists
wiki
Parties

51. Rendering Architecture
Editors Database Renderer Viewer
Potlatch API tiles@ “Google”
(Flash) (Rails) home tiles
Slippy
osmarender, Map
JOSM
pdfatlas, (Open
(Java)
MySQL ... Layers)
... Mapnik “Google”
planet tiles
dump

52. RESTful API
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/35
<way id='7972254' timestamp='2007-09-24T12:36:29+01:00' user='chippy' visible='true'>
<nd ref='59608510' />
<nd ref='59608509' />
<nd ref='59608516' />
<nd ref='59608515' />
<nd ref='59608514' />
<nd ref='59608513' />
<nd ref='59608512' />
<nd ref='59608511' />
<nd ref='59608510' />
<tag k='created_by' v='JOSM' />
<tag k='building' v='retail' />
<tag k='name' v='White Rose Shopping Centre' />
<tag k='amenity' v='shopping_centre' />
<tag k='note' v='huge building' />
</way>

53. Trackpoints
Nodes

54. amenity = hospital
Tags!
name = Saint James
POIs emergency = yes
Ways
highway = primary
name = Otley Road
ref = A660
Areas
highway = residential
name = Chestnut Lane
oneway = true
surface = flags
leisure=nature_reserve
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features

55. landuse=vineyard vs
landuse=farm
crop=grapes

56. BRIGHTON, case study

57. Mapping Party, September 2006

58. OSM Brighton, December 2006

59. Winter 2007

60. Summer 2007
Today

61. Today

62. 1.0

63. My Process

64. Download existing data to GPS

65. Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

66. Network Diagram

67. Upload Tracks

68. Draw Over Them

69. OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

70. The Developing World (ala OSM)

71. Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

72. “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 rights
open and vibrant public spaces and
ecological conservation and sustainable
development
in the mega-city.”

73. LOLCows! Moooove!

74. Our first edit war, Cyprus

75. Military and Security

76. Disputes

77. Disputes

78. OpenStreetMap database is fully
localizable!
We can represent multiple views
of the world.

79. Myanmar
Sudan
Bolivia
Baghdad
North Korea
Phillipines
Southern Africa
GPSTogo

80. The Possibilities & Applications

81. 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

82. 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

83. WE WILL MAP HEBRON!

84. WE WILL MAP THE WEST BANK!

85. WE WILL MAP THE WORLD!
THANK YOU!
mikel@osmfoundation.org
http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/