How to get open geo data on the road
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The document discusses how to obtain open geographic data and contribute to open data projects. It mentions starting with community involvement, experimenting to create a complete ecosystem, and contributing data while developing supportive policy. The overall message is one of collaborative development of open geographic data to enable new forms of spatial thinking.
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How to get open geo data on the road
- 1. How to get open geo data @jwvaneck #OGDCamp on the road
- 5. Where this road got s t a r t ed
- 8. Saxton’s map of Derbyshire, 1579 Rivers, bridges, no roads.
- 9. How to get on the open road
- 10. Get community
- 11. + a complete ecosystem
- 12. Experiment
- 13. W e, the map Contribute
- 15. Develop policy as you go
- 16. Go easy on the arguments Thank you Latina_x
- 18. Government has no monopoly over open data Hack the government!
- 19. Great times for spatial thinking: We cannot even imagine a world where things do not have a place
- 20. How to get open geo data on the road @jwvaneck http://ogdcamp.org/ Warsaw, October 19th, 2011
Editor's Notes
- How to get open geo data on the road Where did we come from and where are we going with open geo data.
- A lightning map of Holland
- A jetstream map of Holland
- http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19200-twitter-mood-maps-reveal-emotional-states-of-america.htmlA happy map
- Actually in a veryclosed domain, sobearwithus.
- Mappingfortradepurposes, alsoverymuchsecrative
- DERBYS: GENERAL MAP:Saxton/Hole.V.Decorative.c16x13.NC.(Universi.)Includesparts of Lancashire.Chestershire.Staffordshire.Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/scans/SCANS18.htmFrom “Earlychart succes” http://www.amazon.co.uk/Exploring-History-Around-Derbyshire-Richard/dp/1859837050
- Understand what is takes to support a community of people.
- Meaning here: data, technology, knowledge, experience, etc.
- Resulted in manyappcontests (which are reallygreat)
- Contribute to openstreetmap. With data, supportingtheirevent, integrate tools, service the maps, etc.
- Understandwhatmakesgeographicinformation different: visualisationrules, data quality, quantity of data (and much more…)
- Don’tmake up all the rules in the beginning, go slow
- And choose ‘it’sjust practical’ approach
- Ifyou want to getanideawhat to strivefor….
- Citizens and firmsneed to contribute as well