1) The document discusses OpenStreetMap, a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. 2) It highlights how OpenStreetMap data is open and can be freely used, edited, and shared compared to proprietary map data. 3) The document envisions using OpenStreetMap to map underserved areas like the West Bank to empower local communities and support issues like urban planning, agriculture, and humanitarian aid.

1. FreeMap West Bank Mikel Maron Bethlehem August 15, 2008

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”

5. animation...

6. WHY?

7. mapping data is not free

8. full of mistakes, car-centered

9. mistakes can't be corrected

10. can't re-use, or print

11. economics rules coverage

12. Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

13. Change happens too fast...

14. Disasters

15. Olympics

16. Times Atlas

17. SERIOUSLY!

20. UK – complete with the next 1-2 years

21. Europe in GPS points

22. Contours in Slovakia

23. OpenPisteMap

24. OSM Cycle Map

25. OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices

26. Osnabrück – a freed city

27. Yahoo! -- Imagery in OSM

28. OpenStreetMap in flickr

29. Sponsors

30. cloudmade ito nestoria CadCorp Corporate Uses

31. OSM Foundation State of the Map Conference

32. Companies tapping the crowd

33. Google Map Maker

34. AND maps2.0

35. Donated Data and Free Data

36. AND Netherlands Donation

37. City of Merano

38. TIGER/Line

39. And more ... Sudan from the UN, Canada, New Zealand, Falkland Islands...

40. Or just get on with it!

41. upcoming parties

42. JumpStart International and FreeMap West Bank * Public Domain Data * Seperate server * Import into OSM at conclusion for ongoing maintenance and improvement http://westbank.freemap.in/

43. TECH

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

45. = thriving ecosystem of renderers, editors..

46. API (Rails)‏ Potlatch (Flash)‏ JOSM (Java)‏ Database ... Renderer Mapnik tiles@ home osmarender, pdfatlas, ... planet dump MySQL Viewer Slippy Map (Open Layers)‏ “ Google” tiles “ Google” tiles Editors Rendering, etc.

47. Mapstraction ...one API to cover them all, incl OSM

48. BRIGHTON, case study

49. Mapping Party, September 2006

50. OSM Brighton, December 2006

51. Winter 2007

52. Today Summer 2007

53. Today

54. 1.0

55. My Process

56. Download existing data to GPS

57. Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

58. Network Diagram

59. Upload Tracks

60. Draw Over Them

61. Our first edit war, Cyprus

62. Disputes

63. Disputes

64. OpenStreetMap database is fully localizable! We can represent multiple views of the world.

65. OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

66. The Developing World (ala OSM)

67. Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

68. “ 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.”

69. LOLCows! Moooove!

70. Military and Security

71. Myanmar Sudan Bolivia Baghdad North Korea Phillipines Southern Africa GPSTogo

72. The Possibilities & Applications

73. 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

74. 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

75. WE WILL MAP BETHLEHEM!

76. WE WILL MAP THE WEST BANK!

77. WE WILL MAP THE WORLD! THANK YOU! [email_address] http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/