This Mapping Thing Could Really Take Off

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This Mapping Stuff Could Really Take Off SteveC

We begin with a refrain...

Rember that OSM Evolved

We just hit 1,000 people editing per month

PAST

Where did we begin?

It began...

09-Aug-2004 18:47:25 UTC

Or did it?

OSM Through History

2004

2005

§

2006

Mapping parties really worked well

2007

Month of OSM

Digital Pioneers NL

PRESENT

Data Models

It started with nodes

then segments

then much later, ways

The API design infected the UI

nodes, then segments, then ways

...only much later do we ﬁnd that the model, despite much argument, is what Real Companies basically use

Some Lessons

Segments were supposed to be tagged

Tags worked really well...

...but there were supposed to be tag equivalences

Tags create debate Tags create community

WFS-T is still dumb N/S/W simplicity wins

Google Tiles have killed WMS

Workﬂow was supposed to be split - •GPS •Vectorisation •Classiﬁcation

How to run a F/LOSS project

Don’t listen to anyone, they only say everything is impossible

Don’t listen to anyone, they only say everything is possible

In short - nobody is pragmatic

Pragmatism wins

Concentrate on community (it helps if you wrote all the server code too)

This means debates (tags), pubs (mapping parties), simplicity (N/S/W) and spreading the gospel (talks)

I’ve given over 40 presentations on OSM in 6 countries...

...and lots of people still haven’t heard of wikipedia

Give people doing the work responsibility (sysadmin, tile, www, OSMF)

Ignore everyone else

(unless ﬂamewars look fun)

We only got here by totally ignoring the GIS industry

•GPS Inaccurate •WFS-T required •Tags will never work •Database will be too big •OS have mastermap

FUTURE

Data: UK-US comparison

US GeoData Maket Price 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

US GeoData Maket Price TIGER- derived (mostly) TIGER 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

UK GeoData Maket Price 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

UK GeoData Maket OS Price OSM 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

UK GeoData Maket OS I’m ignoring ex- copyright data as Price its place is very debatable OSM 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

UK GeoData Maket OS Price OSM 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

We’ve seen this before

OS Market Windows Price Linux 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

OS Market Windows (Think price per feature) Price Linux 100 ‘%’ ‘Quality’

The future is croudsourced

knowledge maps OS

This is just the beginning

Everything is going to be croudsourced

Phones TV Money Work Data News Accomodation Travel knowledge maps OS

All these are doing is removing the obstacles

Ordnance Maps People Survey

Maps People People

People Banks People

Money People People

Coase’s Penguin (Yochai Benkler) Commons-based Peer Production: •Non-monetary motivation •Discrete multi-size pieces •Low-cost integration

Coase’s Penguin (Yochai Benkler) Commons-based Peer Production: •Fun •Takes 5 minutes •Easy

Should OSM be an open map...

...or a Socialist Utopia?

Phones TV Money Work Data News Accomodation Travel knowledge maps OS

$$$ Kernel, XFree, KDE &c.

Data models...

We *still* don’t have PostgreSQL, geoSQL or a new data model

It remains to be seen whether anyone will ever do the work

We don’t know when the UK / World will be ﬁnished (mid-2008 anyone?)

Or what map maintenance will look like (opposed to map creation)

We know we’re going to be at least 50% wrong

(Rember that OSM will Evolve)

But it will be fun.

The journey is the reward

Thanks for all the maps Steve Coast

This Mapping Thing Could Really Take Off

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