OpenMappingAfrica Mikel Maron + Andrew Turner Nairobi September 24, 2008

About Us brainoff.com + highearthorbit.com Mapufacture + GeoCommons Helping Build the GeoWeb mapufacture.com + geocommons.com WaterWiki first public UN wiki waterwiki.net OpenStreetMap Foundation Board Member Brighton, UK Developing World “ building digital technology for our planet”

= + what is openstreetmap? the openstreetmap “one-liner”

animation...

WHY?

mapping data is not free

full of mistakes, car-centered

mistakes can't be corrected

can't re-use, or print

economics rules coverage

Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

Change happens too fast...

Disasters

Olympics

Times Atlas

SERIOUSLY!

Completing 1-2 yrs UK done Netherlands ~done Germany done Paris done Mumbai done Tokyo

Nairobi

Europe in GPS points

Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM

OpenStreetMap in flickr

Sponsors

Corporate Uses cloudmade ito nestoria CadCorp

OSM Foundation State of the Map Conference

Companies tapping the crowd

Google Map Maker

AND maps2.0

Pretty Maps

Contours in Slovakia

OpenPisteMap

OSM Cycle Map

OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

Donated Data and Free Data

AND Netherlands Donation

Osnabrück – a freed city

City of Merano

TIGER/Line

Old *copyright clear* Georectified Maps wrp.geothings.net OpenAerialMap.org Landsat

And more ... Sudan from the UN, Canada, New Zealand, Falkland Islands...

Or just get on with it!

upcoming parties

Technology

RESTful API + simple data format + tagging for metadata + standard map tiles

= thriving ecosystem of tools, renderers, editors, routers, applications

Active Community! 50K+ registered 10K monthly editors Mailing lists wiki Parties

API (Rails)‏ Potlatch (Flash)‏ JOSM (Java)‏ Database ... Renderer Mapnik tiles@ home osmarender, pdfatlas, ... planet dump MySQL Viewer Slippy Map (Open Layers)‏ “ Google” tiles “ Google” tiles Editors Rendering Architecture

http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/35 <way id='7972254' timestamp='2007-09-24T12:36:29+01:00' user='chippy' visible='true'> <nd ref='59608510' /> <nd ref='59608509' /> <nd ref='59608516' /> <nd ref='59608515' /> <nd ref='59608514' /> <nd ref='59608513' /> <nd ref='59608512' /> <nd ref='59608511' /> <nd ref='59608510' /> <tag k='created_by' v='JOSM' /> <tag k='building' v='retail' /> <tag k='name' v='White Rose Shopping Centre' /> <tag k='amenity' v='shopping_centre' /> <tag k='note' v='huge building' /> </way> RESTful API

Trackpoints Nodes

Ways highway = residential name = Chestnut Lane oneway = true surface = flags highway = primary name = Otley Road ref = A660 Tags ! http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features amenity = hospital name = Saint James emergency = yes POIs Areas leisure=nature_reserve

landuse=vineyard vs landuse=farm crop=grapes

Mapstraction ...one Javascript API to cover them all, including OSM

BRIGHTON, case study

Mapping Party, September 2006

OSM Brighton, December 2006

Winter 2007

Today Summer 2007

Today

1.0

My Process

Download existing data to GPS

Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

Network Diagram

Upload Tracks

Draw Over Them

OpenMappingAfrica http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008 * Nairobi, Kenya, 20-27 September 2008 * Cape Town Mapping Party, 28 September 2008 * 29 September - 3 October FOSS4G 2008 * Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-5 October 2008 * Mbabane, Swaziland, 6-7 October 2008

The Developing World (ala OSM)‏

Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

Myanmar Sudan Palestine Bolivia Baghdad North Korea Phillipines GPSTogo

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

WE WILL MAP THE WORLD! THANK YOU! [email_address] [email_address]