OpenStreetMap Camp Roberts

Mikel MaronAugust 5, 2009

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what is openstreetmap? the openstreetmap “one-liner”

GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

OSM inPrint, Offline, Mobile

Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

OSM inGovt & Corps

OSM inthe Developing World and UN

Disasters

THE SOLUTION

GeoRSS/KMLP2P

Paper Maps

Ham RadioSMS/Twitter

Pre-Event Data Store

Remote Sensing

Rapid Deploy

“Common Operating Picture”

Collaborative Map PlatformOnline/OfflineBandwith SensitiveSync-ableOpen Source – Field Hackable

Contours in Slovakia

OpenPisteMap

OSM Cycle Map

Complete Roads and POIin West Bank

and Gaza

Donated Data and Free Data

AND Netherlands Donation

City of Merano

TIGER/Line

And more ...

Afghanistan Imagery from NGA! Sudan from the UN, Canada, New Zealand, Falkland Islands...

Or just get on with it!

upcoming parties

TECH

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

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

Active Community!

130K+ 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/0.6/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

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

OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

The Developing World (ala OSM)

Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

“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 rightsopen and vibrant public spaces and ecological conservation and sustainable development

in the mega-city.”

LOLCows! Moooove!

Our first edit war, Cyprus

Military and Security

Disputes

Disputes

OpenStreetMap database is fully localizable!

We can represent multiple views of the world.

Myanmar Sudan

Bolivia Baghdad

North KoreaPhillipines

Southern Africa

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 CAMP ROBERTS!

WE WILL MAP AFGHANISTAN!

WE WILL MAP THE WORLD!

THANK YOU!

mikel@osmfoundation.orghttp://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/