1. OpenStreetMap in Palestine
Mikel Maron, OSM Foundation
N2Y4
2009 May 26

2. Complete
Roads and POI
in West Bank
and Gaza

3. OpenStreetMap?
Global Collaborative Mapping
“kinda like Wikipedia for Maps”

4. GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties,
Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

6. Maps and Data are
Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

7. OSM in
Print, Offline, Mobile

8. OSM in
Govt & Corps

9. OSM in
the Developing World and UN

10. JumpStart Mapping Palestine

11. we are missing
Neutral Geographic Context
http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

12. Bethlehem August 2008
Engineers without Borders
Engineering Association

13. Testing Our Mapping
Assumptions

14. Not Easy!
Security/ Heat!/
Volunteers to Job Creation

15. Mappers!

16. From Hebron to Ramallah to Jenin

17. Partners
Atlas, NC4D, ARIJ, PCBS, Relief Intl

18. The State of the Maps
Paper Maps, Geodata Sharing, Piracy

19. Much happiness

20. the first
“Palestinian Spy Satellite”
(kite photography)

21. Gaza January 2009
no decent maps anywhere

22. Call out for help

23. Yahoo! imagery

24. Tidal wave of crowdsourcing

25. Collect existing data sources
and free data
UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News

26. Southern Gaza
Remote Mappers, 7 days

27. Fundraiser for Imagery
5k GBP in days

28. 2m, mid-January
from Digital Globe

29. JumpStart enters
Gaza in March

30. local knowledge

31. Gaza City today

32. And now...

33. Applications and Use
Nationalized Routing

34. SocialGeo
and
Craigslist for Gaza

35. H.O.T
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

36. State of the Map
Mapper Scholarships

37. Complete
Roads and POI
in West Bank
and Gaza

38. Thank you!
Mikel Maron
mikel@osmfoundation.org
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Wiki
Project_Palestine
http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?
s=gaza+openstreetmap
http://jumpstart-mapping.blogspot.com/