OpenStreetMap Camp Roberts
Mikel Maron
August 5, 2009

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

GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties,
Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

Maps and Data are
Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

OSM in
Print, Offline, Mobile

Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

OSM in
Govt & Corps

OSM in
the Developing World and UN

Disasters

“Common Operating Picture”
THE SOLUTION
Collaborative Map Platform
Online/Offline
Bandwith Sensitive
Sync-able
Open Source – Field Hackable Remote Sensing
Rapid Deploy
P2P GeoRSS/KML
Pre-Event Data Store
Paper Maps
SMS/Twitter
Ham Radio

Contours in Slovakia

OpenPisteMap

OSM Cycle Map

Complete
Roads and POI
in West Bank
and Gaza

Donated Data and Free Data

AND Netherlands Donation

City of Merano

TIGER/Line

And more ...
Afghanistan Imagery from NGA!
Sudan from the UN,
Canada,
New Zealand,
Falkland Islands...

Or just get on with it!

upcoming parties

TECH

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

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

Active Community!
130K+ registered
10K+ monthly editors
Mailing lists
wiki
Parties

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

RESTful API
http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/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>

Trackpoints
Nodes

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

landuse=vineyard vs
landuse=farm
crop=grapes

BRIGHTON, case study

Mapping Party, September 2006

OSM Brighton, December 2006

Winter 2007

Summer 2007
Today

Today

1.0

My Process

Download existing data to GPS

Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

Network Diagram

Upload Tracks

Draw Over Them

OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

The Developing World (ala OSM)

Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

“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.”

LOLCows! Moooove!

Our first edit war, Cyprus

Military and Security

Disputes

Disputes

OpenStreetMap database is fully
localizable!
We can represent multiple views
of the world.

Myanmar
Sudan
Bolivia
Baghdad
North Korea
Phillipines
Southern Africa
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 CAMP ROBERTS!

WE WILL MAP AFGHANISTAN!

WE WILL MAP THE WORLD!
THANK YOU!
mikel@osmfoundation.org
http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/