disaster response exercise http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/08/10/1452

1. OpenStreetMap Camp Roberts
Mikel Maron
August 5, 2009

2. what is openstreetmap?
the openstreetmap “one-liner”
= +

3. GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties,
Imagery Digitizing, Open Database

5. Maps and Data are
Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere

6. OSM in
Print, Offline, Mobile

7. Not Free (as in “Freedom”)

8. OSM in
Govt & Corps

9. OSM in
the Developing World and UN

10. Disasters

11. “Common Operating Picture”
THE SOLUTION
Collaborative Map Platform
Online/Offline
Bandwith Sensitive
Sync-able
Open Source – Field Hackable Remote Sensing
Rapid Deploy
P2P GeoRSS/KML
Pre-Event Data Store
Paper Maps
SMS/Twitter
Ham Radio

12. Contours in Slovakia

13. OpenPisteMap

14. OSM Cycle Map

15. Complete
Roads and POI
in West Bank
and Gaza

18. Donated Data and Free Data

19. AND Netherlands Donation

20. City of Merano

21. TIGER/Line

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

23. Or just get on with it!

24. upcoming parties

25. TECH

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

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

28. Active Community!
130K+ registered
10K+ monthly editors
Mailing lists
wiki
Parties

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

30. RESTful API
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>

31. Trackpoints
Nodes

32. amenity = hospital
Tags!
name = Saint James
POIs emergency = yes
Ways
highway = primary
name = Otley Road
ref = A660
Areas
highway = residential
name = Chestnut Lane
oneway = true
surface = flags
leisure=nature_reserve
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Map_features

33. landuse=vineyard vs
landuse=farm
crop=grapes

34. BRIGHTON, case study

35. Mapping Party, September 2006

36. OSM Brighton, December 2006

37. Winter 2007

38. Summer 2007
Today

39. Today

40. 1.0

41. My Process

42. Download existing data to GPS

43. Print Out Map for Notes, Bicycle

44. Network Diagram

45. Upload Tracks

46. Draw Over Them

47. OSM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD

48. The Developing World (ala OSM)

49. Betwala Chawl, Mumbai

50. “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.”

51. LOLCows! Moooove!

52. Our first edit war, Cyprus

53. Military and Security

54. Disputes

55. Disputes

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

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

58. The Possibilities & Applications

59. 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

60. 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

61. WE WILL MAP CAMP ROBERTS!

62. WE WILL MAP AFGHANISTAN!

63. WE WILL MAP THE WORLD!
THANK YOU!
mikel@osmfoundation.org
http://slideshare.net/mikel_maron/