5. What about Google?
• Restrictive License
– Images only – no source Vectors
– Cannot access Offline
• Only covers the areas of commercial
interest to Google
• Cannot develop new tags / rendering
• Doesn’t respond fast enough in the event
of a Disaster
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9. Haiti
• High-resolution Satellite Imagery
available quickly (26 hrs)
• OpenStreetMap volunteers used this & old
printed maps to quickly cover Port-au-Prince
• These were made available as
basemaps on handheld GPS
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12. Humanitarian
• HOT: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
available for Tracing & Field Deployments
(focus on Training)
– Kibera slum, Nairobi
– Haiti
– Philippines
• Humanitarian Data Model
“Location, Location, Location”
“Everything is related to everything else, but near things are more related than distant things.“
- The First Law of Geography
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobler%27s_first_law_of_geography
Display WMS, KML & Internal Resources over an OpenStreetMap base layer (or Google, or Yahoo)
Just like Wikipedia, the power of crowd-sourcing for creating Accurate, up-to-date content is incredible.
The fact that anyone can edit would seem to suggest that the data will be unreliable, but actually the opposite turns out to be true – there are more honest people than vandals.
Not having a hard system of classification allows it to adapt rapidly which is especially useful for Local contexts.
This doesn’t mean that there is anarchy – using agreed tags means that the various rendering engines will display them properly.
Seems to be an active community (especially Urban).
Mapping Party held in 2009
Domain openstreetmap.org.vn : Available (could setup a local server which would be faster for local users)