FreeMap India 2008 Mikel Maron & Schuyler Erle State of the Map July 13, 2008

A series of multi-day workshops in several India cities. Researchers, students, programmers, activists and members of the community are invited to participate, learn, and take stewardship of their city. These will be very practical, hands-on days, covering the entire toolset of OpenStreetMap and empowering participants to lead the growth of free and open mapping in India. We will map India!

How It Came to Pass

Mumbai Free Map, 2005-

C ollective R esearch I nitiatives T rust

“ 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.”

Betwala Chawl

The Itinerary

Professor Jitendra Shah

Swapnil & KK, Binyas (former Indictrans)

Nagarjuna, FSF India

Kiran Jonnalagadda, aka Jace

Dinesh, Servalots

Gora Mahoraty, SARAI

Professor Rai, Guru Nanek Dev College

Indranil Das Gupta, FSF-West Bengal

Shekhar Krishnan MIT/CRIT

India!

LOLCows! Moooove!

The Culture of Open

“ OpenStreetMap by nature requires a great deal of personal initiative, there’s nothing top down about it, from the technology to the process to its goals and aims. So there’s also this feeling that we’re not just teaching about OpenStreetMap, but the entire culture and ethic of open source/open data and entrepreneurship.”

Polished Framing

Certification

universally got it

first time GPS

We mapped

and talked

and mapped

and talked

and again and again and again

Language & Slang

Gender Equality?

Elitism?