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 Maronmikel@osmfoundation.org

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine

http://brainoff.com/weblog/index.php?

s=gaza+openstreetmap

http://jumpstart-mapping.blogspot.com/