OpenMappingAfrica

Mikel Maron + Andrew TurnerNairobi

September 24, 2008

About Usbrainoff.com + highearthorbit.com

Mapufacture + GeoCommonsHelping Build the GeoWeb mapufacture.com + geocommons.com

WaterWikifirst public UN wikiwaterwiki.net

OpenStreetMap Foundation Board MemberBrighton, UKDeveloping World

“building digital technology for our planet”

= +

what is openstreetmap? the openstreetmap “one-liner”

animation...

WHY?

mapping data is not free

full of mistakes, car-centered

mistakes can't be corrected

can't re-use, or print

economics rules coverage

Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

Change happens too fast...

Disasters

Olympics

Times Atlas

SERIOUSLY!

Completing

1-2 yrsUK doneNetherlands ~doneGermany

doneParis doneMumbai doneTokyo

Nairobi

Europe in GPS points

Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM

OpenStreetMap in flickr

Sponsors

Corporate Uses

cloudmadeitonestoriaCadCorp

OSM FoundationState of the Map Conference

Companies tapping the crowd

Google Map Maker

AND maps2.0

Pretty Maps

Contours in Slovakia

OpenPisteMap

OSM Cycle Map

OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

Donated Data and Free Data

AND Netherlands Donation

Osnabrück – a freed city

City of Merano

TIGER/Line

Old *copyright clear* Georectified Maps wrp.geothings.net

OpenAerialMap.org

Landsat

And more ...

Sudan from the UN, Canada, New Zealand, Falkland Islands...

Or just get on with it!

upcoming parties

Technology

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

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

Active Community!

50K+ registered10K monthly editors

Mailing listswikiParties

API(Rails)

Potlatch(Flash)

JOSM(Java)

Database

...

Renderer

Mapnik

tiles@home

osmarender,pdfatlas,

...

planetdump

MySQL

Viewer

SlippyMap

(OpenLayers)

“Google”tiles

“Google”tiles

Editors

Rendering Architecture

http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.4/way/35

<way id='7972254' timestamp='2007-09-24T12:36:29+01:00' user='chippy' visible='true'> <nd ref='59608510' /> <nd ref='59608509' /> <nd ref='59608516' /> <nd ref='59608515' /> <nd ref='59608514' /> <nd ref='59608513' /> <nd ref='59608512' /> <nd ref='59608511' /> <nd ref='59608510' /> <tag k='created_by' v='JOSM' /> <tag k='building' v='retail' /> <tag k='name' v='White Rose Shopping Centre' /> <tag k='amenity' v='shopping_centre' /> <tag k='note' v='huge building' /> </way>

RESTful API

Trackpoints

Nodes

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 = yesPOIs

Areas

leisure=nature_reserve

landuse=vineyard vslanduse=farmcrop=grapes

Mapstraction...one Javascript API to cover them all, including OSM

BRIGHTON, case study

Mapping Party, September 2006

OSM Brighton, December 2006

Winter 2007

TodaySummer 2007

Today

1.0

My Process

Download existing data to GPS

Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

Network Diagram

Upload Tracks

Draw Over Them

OpenMappingAfricahttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/OpenMappingAfrica2008

* Nairobi, Kenya, 20-27 September 2008* Cape Town Mapping Party, 28 September 2008* 29 September - 3 October FOSS4G 2008* Johannesburg, South Africa, 3-5 October 2008* Mbabane, Swaziland, 6-7 October 2008

The Developing World (ala OSM)

Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

Myanmar Sudan

Palestine Bolivia Baghdad

North KoreaPhillipines

GPSTogo

The Possibilities & Applications

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

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

WE WILL MAP THE WORLD!

THANK YOU!

mikel@osmfoundation.orgajturner@highearthorbit.com