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http://openstreetmap.orghttp://osm.org

Why?

(sub-question: why not google maps?)

For me:

Same as why

(maps, like encyclopedia articles, are awesome information, lets have a free world-editable version!)

Mapping data is not free

Mistakes cannot be corrected

(these are first-world examples;

Nepal has its own set of

delicious ones)

Off-line possibilities

(In contrast, included in the folder you gotis all of the VECTOR data for Kathmanduthat OSM has)

Apps! (both use and write...)

Apps! (both use and write...)

Open DataThe one GIS data platform to rule them all (?)

UN

ICIMOD

SURVEY Dept.

VDC

खानेपानी संस्था

सडक िबिभाग

Who else?

Re-use & reprint (legally)

What?(ie, what exactly are we talking about?)

(http://openstreetmap.org)

- nodes- ways- tags

- relations (only advanced)

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

The OSM-”Tool Chain”

API(Rails)

Potlatch(Flash)

JOSM(Java)

Database

...

Renderer

Mapnik

tiles@home

osmarender,pdfatlas,

...

planetdump

MySQL

Viewer

SlippyMap

(OpenLayers)

“Google”tiles

“Google”tiles

Editors

Back to Basics:

OSM = Wiki MapEdited by us.

How?

(how to add data to OSM?)

GPS tracks

Imagery!

Local Knowledge

Data sources

UNNepal govt.?

ICIMOD

Who else?

(Challenge: Licensing)

Mapping Parties

We can do it!

Case Study: Mikel Maron in Brighton, England

Mapping Party, September 2006

OSM Brighton, December 2006

Summer 2007

TodayWinter 2007

Today

1.0

State of the map in Nepal

We can do it!

Challenges for mapping in Nepal

- bandwidth- map culture

- rural mapping

Useful links:

http://openstreetmap.org – OSM sitehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org – OSM wiki

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_Guide – Beginner's Guide

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features - Map Features Tagging Guide

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-np - OSM Nepal mailing list

http://opengeodata.org – Blagh.

(Search slideshare for openstreetmap – tons of presentations and new ideas!)