OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. It allows users to collect and share geographic data and edit maps. The project aims to build a map that is free of errors and restrictions, and that anyone can use and improve. It has grown rapidly since its founding in 2004 and now has a large amount of mapped data across Europe and parts of Africa and Asia. The project hopes to continue expanding worldwide and learning from other collaborative projects like Wikipedia.
2. 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”
3. = + what is openstreetmap? the openstreetmap “one-liner”
88. “ 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.”
97. 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
98. 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
99. WE WILL MAP THE WORLD! THANK YOU! [email_address] http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/