OpenStreetMap Mikel Maron Wikimania, Alexendria Egypt July 18, 2008

About ME brainoff.com Mapufacture Helping Build the GeoWeb mapufacture.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!

UK – complete with the next 1-2 years

Europe in GPS points

Contours in Slovakia

OpenPisteMap

OSM Cycle Map

OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

Osnabrück – a freed city

Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM

Sponsors

cloudmade ito nestoria CadCorp Corporate Uses

OSM Foundation State of the Map Conference

Companies tapping the crowd

Google Map Maker

AND maps2.0

Donated Data and Free Data

AND Netherlands Donation

City of Merano

Sudan from UN-JLC (need image)

TIGER/Line

And more ... Canada, New Zealand, Falkland Islands...

Your Town, Region, Country, Continent?

Or just get on with it!

upcoming parties

TECH

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

= thriving ecosystem of renderers, editors..

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, etc.

Mapstraction ...one API to cover them all, incl 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

OSM + WIKIPEDIA

HOW DOES OSM DIFFER FROM WIKIPEDIA

* contributors comparison, what year is OSM?

In the World Perhaps wider potential contributors

Ownership

OpenXMap

debate on tags * happens on list .. but should happen in app

* existing sources of data, _potentially_ open * very well funded commercial competitors

COOPERATION OF OSM + WIKIPEDIA

1.2 million geotagged wikipedia articles 200K english geotagged articles

mediawiki plugin http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/MediaWiki_plugin

infrastructure sharing test

but that's a lot of new potential contributors

WHAT CAN A GROWING OSM LEARN FROM WIKIPEDIA & WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION

Our first edit war, Cyprus

Disputes

Disputes

* User uploading derived data

* trademark & domains

Who can speak for OSM? to govts, companies, etc

* MYANMAR, CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION, OpenStreetBugs

GERMANY-- editing primaries into secondaries. wiki codifications?

** Codification & Growth, Committees?

OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD * developing world, free & elicits contributions, open door

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!

Military and Security

OSM IN EGYPT (CAIRO)

OSM IN EGYPT (ALEXANDRIA)

ARCHAELOGICAL SITES FROM LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA

Myanmar Sudan Bolivia Baghdad North Korea Phillipines GPSTogo

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

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] http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/