FreeMapIndia 2008, part 2

Technical Challenges

what could go wrong? power bandwidth network projectors software incompatibilities gps devices shopping

what could go right?

MapMaker

Result

Mumbai

Trivandrum

Bangalore

Chennai

New Delhi

Ludhiana

The Possibilities & Applications

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

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

The Peculiarities

Landmark Navigation

Dobhi ghat, unique tags/icons

Indic Script

Military and Security

Disputes

Ongoing and Future

Data Imports AND Data Freemap WMS Maharastra State Data Yahoo Imagery other states..

IndicTrans UNDP work plan Import Existing Data, and further data from CRIT Rendering Indic Languages Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tools to get ESRI Shapefile into OSM Easy export of OSM data into SVG, ESRI Shapefile, Adobe Illustrator Internationalization of JOSM Offline, multimaster-syncs

Subhodip Biswas, GSoC: GPSBabel JOSM

Arindam Ghosh, GSoC: I18N Rails

The Developing World (ala teleatlas)

The Developing World (ala OSM)

Myanmar Sudan Bolivia Baghdad North Korea Phillipines GPSTogo

Southern Africa [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008]

“ not all of us are talking about GIS but GIS talks about all of us”

Once your neighborhood is mapped..

WE WILL MAP THE WORLD! [email_address] http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/

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FreeMapIndia 2008, part 2

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