Free and Open Palestine

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/

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