OpenStreetMap in Palestine

Mikel Maron, OSM FoundationIgnite CrisisCamp

2009 May 26

Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

OSM inGovt & Corps

Development &UN

JumpStart Mapping Palestine

we are missingNeutral Geographic Context

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

Bethlehem August 2008Engineers without BordersEngineering Association

Testing Our Mapping Assumptions

From Hebron to Ramallah to Jenin

PartnersAtlas, NC4D, ARIJ, PCBS, Relief Intl

Gaza January 2009no decent maps anywhere

Call out for help

Tidal wave of crowdsourcing

Collect existing data sourcesand free data

UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News

Fundraiser for Imagery5k GBP in days2m, mid-January

from Digital Globe

JumpStart entersGaza in March

Gaza City today

Applications and Use Nationalized Routing

H.O.T

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Complete Roads and POI

in West Bank and Gaza