Map Kibera

Mikel MaronHumanitarian OpenStreetMap TeamUN East Africa2009 Dec 2

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Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2 is a blank spot on the map

November/December (NOW!)

Partner with community groups and NGOs working in Kibera Train movitated young Kiberans to map Kibera themselves.

Volunteers from Nairobi and global tech community

Data users and coders invited to participate

OpenStreetMap?Global Collaborative Mappingkinda like Wikipedia for Maps

GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

We're growing fast!

OSM inPrint, Offline, Mobile

OSM inGovt & Corps

H.O.THumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

MAPACTION PHILLIPINES DATA SHARING

photo: http://www.mapaction.org/deployments/mapdetail/1801.html

Philippines Typhoon Response

Mapping Palestine

we are missingNeutral Geographic Context

photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/

Palestine Mappers!August 2008 April 2009

Testing Our Mapping Assumptions

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

Gaza January 2009no decent maps anywhere

Call out for helpFundraiser for Imagery

Tidal wave of crowdsourcing

Southern GazaRemote Mappers, 7 days

local knowledge

Gaza City today

Applications and Use Nationalized Routing

Arabic Maps

Gaza Incident Map

Gaza Tourist Map

Map Cake!

Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2 is a blank spot on the map

Is this all we see of Kibera?

Existing Datasatellite imagery

Partners and Allies

Tech Community: Ushahidi, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks, OpenStreetMap

Universities: Columbia University, U of Nairobi

Agencies: Nairobi, City Govt, UN-Habitat, UNHCR, UNICEF, Google

Broadcast and Community Media: Pamoja FM, Kibera Journal, KTN, Citizen TV, Kibera WorldWide, Hot Sun Foundation

AND you and who...?

Kibera Mappers!

GPS Surveying

Walking Papers

The Lab

What do we collect?

roads and paths and rail wells pit latrines / sewer medical facilities schools churches/mosques businesses community organizations administrative units

and whatever else is useful?!

Outreach: Community

Outreach: Administration

Outreach:

YOU :)

So what? you have a map..

Media Aggregator

Community news on the map .. Kibera Journal, Pamoja FM, Kibera WorldWide

Ongoing Programs

for data collection in Kibera and Nairobi Slums, Kenya, and Globally

Geeks!!

Build cool stuff with our Kibera and OpenStreetMap data

Workshops

NGOs / UN / Govt raise awareness and build projects with Map Kibera, open data and open source.

TECH

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

= thriving ecosystem of tools, renderers, editors, routers, applications

Active Community!

Almost 200k registered~20K monthly editors

Mailing listswikiParties

Trackpoints

Nodes

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_Guide

Ways

highway = residentialname = Chestnut Laneoneway = truesurface = flags

highway = primaryname = Otley Roadref = A660

Tags!

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features

amenity = hospitalname = Saint Jamesemergency = yes

POIs

Areas

leisure=nature_reserve

landuse=vineyard vslanduse=farmcrop=grapes

Rendering Architecturehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop

PUT /api/0.6/changeset/create

... ...

PUT /api/0.6/[node|way|relation]/create

... ...

PUT /api/0.6/changeset/#id/close

REST-ful APIhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6

Happening APPS

OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

Matatu Route Map

Walking Papers GeoTIFF Pamoja Trust

Kibera Community Media

Art Mapping

Kibera Digital Elevation Model

Community Development Fund Tracking

Initial complete Map

"Kibera's people deserve to know the facts about their lives" -- Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities

Map Kibera http://mapkibera.org/http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Humanitarian_OSM_Teamhttp://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maronhttp://brainoff.com/mikel@osmfoundation.org