There’s lots of people watching.

About me
name=Glenn Plas
operator=free will
women=3
children=2
twins=1
occupation=build solid solutions
hobbies=aikido;reading;programming
openstreetmaps;snowboard
employer=me
company:name=BitLess ; CoolDevOps.com
contact:twitter=glenn_plas
contact:email=glenn@byte-consult.be
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Strive for progress
Not perfection.

Is the NEW gold
If Open Data

Is a goldmine.
Then OpenStreetMap data

Over 554(*) Gigabyte (GB) = 594 852 970 500 Bytes
How much gold exactly?
* Growing every second
“The sum of the personal interest of all”

Mining it means
Getting your hands dirty

Openstreetmap data
Works like a swiss knife

API
• OverPass
• Nominatim
• Routing engines
Buildings blocks
• Tile servers ( renderd, tirex, tileman, mapnik )
• Foreign API's ( Open / Private , webservices )
• Libraries ( LeafLet , OpenLayers )
Unfold the right tool to leverage
Powertools
Gis software (QGIS)•
Editors ( JOSM )•
PosgreSQL / spatial enabled DB's•

Be the Chef
Not the receipe.

Visualize OSM derived data
Differently

Events @ location
On a timemap

Cook up OSM with
Realtime traffic data

Visualize # shops
As data statistics.

Slice
… like a masterchef.

Fire hydrants.

Emphasize specifics

Railway.

Imagination is the
Highest form of research.

OSM data as scenery
In a Flight simulator

Need a bathroom break?

Can't hold it no more?
Find the nearest exit!

There is more
Under the hood

We have data suitable for
Software parsing.

Coordinates are nice digits
But they don't tell us much

Translate to coordinate...
… and reverse: geocoding.

The raw data is like LEGO
You can never overplay it.

“When you open up the data,
there’s no limit to what people can
do. It engages the imagination of
citizens in building the city.”
-David Miller, Mayor of Toronto.
Toronto 2.0: Data Sharing Source
The Globe and Mail, 09-01-31

Open systems can
make heroes.
Not just scapegoats.

Open Systems Create
New Markets.

INTELLIGENCE + IMAGINATION

Mobile is the new brain

To build your imagination

You need (skilled) people

To create solutions
That serve people

With OSM data is the future
Combining external input

What you can do now.

We want YOU to contribute

Analyse ...
And identify grey spots.

Use data to improve itself.
Gardening OSM

We want you to USE it

Consume ( build stuff )
• Commercial (for Startups, as alternative, supporting role )
• Academic ( research, statistics, educational )
• Government ( improving GIS services, promote OD use )
Care (give a stuff)
• Promote use :
Government
•
Try / Use it!
Contribute (donate stuff)
• Map / Validate
•
People
Businesses
•
•
• Allow & Suggest, encourage usage
Garden
• Invest ( resources, money, time )
Dare to experiment (mock it up!)•

• Legislative
• Cultural
• Too much data
• Real time vs historic
• Definitions / references
• Limited skills and over specialisation
Some challenges ahead
• Privacy

Privacy challenges

Data for Mr. Government
Benefits of OpenStreetMap

It’s hard for
governments to
experiment.

There’s lots of rules.

“No one was ever promoted
for disclosing information.”
-US Government Employee.

Open Systems Allow
External Contribution.

Open Systems Make
Failure Free.
* paraphrasing Clay Shirky.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/1308955915/

What will you do
with (y)our data ??

http://www.slideshare.net/glennplas

Attribution / Sources / Credits / Inspiration / thanks / ©

Jeff Lawson, Twilio - http://www.slideshare.net/twilio/we-are-software-people-jeff-lawson-api-strategy-conference
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Traffic layer live concept map - http://m.bitless.be/
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Timemap BIN incidents (delayed) - http://m.bitless.be/time.html
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ArcelorMittal – providing site layout data
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Openstreetmap - ODbL - © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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FlightGear - http://www.flightgear.org/
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Flight radar - http://www.flightradar24.com/RYR753Q/590daea
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Andrew Stott - UK Transparency Board and first Director of data.gov.uk
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Prof. Peter Fisk – peterfisk@peterfisk.com @GeniusWorks
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Census data - http://global.census.okfn.org/
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Frank Weyns - Director Sales Engineering EMEA at Mirantis
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Jennifer Bell – Benefits of open government data -
http://www.slideshare.net/jenniferbell/benefits-of-open-government-data