openstreetmap in palestine
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OpenStreetMap in Palestine
Mikel Maron, OSM FoundationN2Y4
2009 May 26
Complete Roads and POIin West Bank
and Gaza
OpenStreetMap?Global Collaborative Mapping
“kinda like Wikipedia for Maps”
GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open Database
Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere
OSM inPrint, Offline, Mobile
OSM inGovt & Corps
OSM inthe Developing World and UN
JumpStart Mapping Palestine
we are missingNeutral Geographic Context
http://www.flickr.com/photos/discoste/3069220022/
Bethlehem August 2008Engineers without Borders
Engineering Association
Testing Our Mapping Assumptions
Not Easy!Security/ Heat!/
Volunteers to Job Creation
Mappers!
From Hebron to Ramallah to Jenin
PartnersAtlas, NC4D, ARIJ, PCBS, Relief Intl
The State of the MapsPaper Maps, Geodata Sharing, Piracy
Much happiness
the first “Palestinian Spy Satellite”
(kite photography)
Gaza January 2009no decent maps anywhere
Call out for help
Yahoo! imagery
Tidal wave of crowdsourcing
Collect existing data sourcesand free data
UN, Commercial, NGO, EU, Wikipedia, USA, News
Southern GazaRemote Mappers, 7 days
Fundraiser for Imagery5k GBP in days
2m, mid-Januaryfrom Digital Globe
JumpStart entersGaza in March
local knowledge
Gaza City today
And now...
Applications and Use Nationalized Routing
SocialGeoand
Craigslist for Gaza
H.O.T
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
State of the MapMapper Scholarships
Complete Roads and POIin West Bank
and Gaza
Thank you!
Mikel [email protected]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine
http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?
s=gaza+openstreetmap
http://jumpstart-mapping.blogspot.com/