Free and Open Palestine
Mikel Maron
SOTM
2009 Jul 11

Complete
Roads and POI
in West Bank
and Gaza

JumpStart Mapping Palestine
sustainable economic development

Jordan??

we are missing
Neutral Geographic Context
http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

Bethlehem August 2008
Engineers 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

Partners
Atlas, NC4D, ARIJ, PCBS, Relief Intl

The State of the Maps
Paper Maps, Geodata Sharing, Piracy

JumpStart is Public Domain
(we ran our own server, tiles, etc)

ESRI
tracing, integration, familiarity, jobs
wfs-t interface
open up to GIS pros

despite that, Much happiness

the first
“Palestinian Spy Satellite”
(kite photography)

Gaza January 2009
no decent maps anywhere

Call out for help

Yahoo! imagery

Tidal wave

Collect existing data sources
and free data
UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News

OCHA closures, closed

EC, UNOSAT opened

Southern Gaza
Remote Mappers, 7 days

Fundraiser for Imagery
5k GBP in days

2m, mid-January
from Digital Globe

JumpStart enters
Gaza in March

local knowledge

Gaza City yesterday

And now...

Import Process
from JumpStart to OSM
merge, quality correction
talk-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.T
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Tehran - Map Kibera

SOTM
Scholarships
Anas Maraqa

Complete
Roads and POI
in West Bank
and Gaza

Thank you!
Mikel Maron
mikel@osmfoundation.org
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine
http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?s=gaza+openstreetmap
http://jumpstart-mapping.blogspot.com/