Map Kibera
Mikel MaronHumanitarian OpenStreetMap TeamUN East Africa2009 Dec
2
photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12
Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2 is a blank spot on the map
November/December (NOW!)
Partner with community groups and NGOs working in Kibera Train movitated young Kiberans to map Kibera themselves.
Volunteers from Nairobi and global tech community
Data users and coders invited to participate
OpenStreetMap?Global Collaborative Mappingkinda like Wikipedia for Maps
GPS Surveying, Mapping Parties, Imagery Digitizing, Open
Database
Maps and Data are Expensive, Wrong, Not Everywhere
We're growing fast!
OSM inPrint, Offline, Mobile
OSM inGovt & Corps
H.O.THumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
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Mapping Palestine
we are missingNeutral Geographic Context
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Palestine Mappers!August 2008 April 2009
Testing Our Mapping Assumptions
Not Easy!Security/ Heat!/ Volunteers to Job Creation
Gaza January 2009no decent maps anywhere
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Tidal wave of crowdsourcing
Southern GazaRemote Mappers, 7 days
local knowledge
Gaza City today
Applications and Use Nationalized Routing
Arabic Maps
Gaza Incident Map
Gaza Tourist Map
Map Cake!
Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2 is a blank spot on the map
Is this all we see of Kibera?
Existing Datasatellite imagery
Partners and Allies
Tech Community: Ushahidi, Mobile Boot Camp, skunkwerks, OpenStreetMap
Universities: Columbia University, U of Nairobi
Agencies: Nairobi, City Govt, UN-Habitat, UNHCR, UNICEF, Google
Broadcast and Community Media: Pamoja FM, Kibera Journal, KTN, Citizen TV, Kibera WorldWide, Hot Sun Foundation
AND you and who...?
Kibera Mappers!
GPS Surveying
Walking Papers
The Lab
What do we collect?
roads and paths and rail wells pit latrines / sewer medical facilities schools churches/mosques businesses community organizations administrative units
and whatever else is useful?!
Outreach: Community
Outreach: Administration
Outreach:
YOU :)
So what? you have a map..
Media Aggregator
Community news on the map .. Kibera Journal, Pamoja FM, Kibera WorldWide
Ongoing Programs
for data collection in Kibera and Nairobi Slums, Kenya, and Globally
Geeks!!
Build cool stuff with our Kibera and OpenStreetMap data
Workshops
NGOs / UN / Govt raise awareness and build projects with Map Kibera, open data and open source.
TECH
RESTful API+ simple XML based data format+ tagging for metadata+ standard map tiles
= thriving ecosystem of tools, renderers, editors, routers, applications
Active Community!
Almost 200k registered~20K monthly editors
Mailing listswikiParties
Trackpoints
Nodes
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_Guide
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 = yes
POIs
Areas
leisure=nature_reserve
landuse=vineyard vslanduse=farmcrop=grapes
Rendering Architecturehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Develop
PUT /api/0.6/changeset/create
... ...
PUT /api/0.6/[node|way|relation]/create
... ...
PUT /api/0.6/changeset/#id/close
REST-ful APIhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_v0.6
Happening APPS
OSM on Mobile, GPS Devices
Matatu Route Map
Walking Papers GeoTIFF Pamoja Trust
Kibera Community Media
Art Mapping
Kibera Digital Elevation Model
Community Development Fund Tracking
Initial complete Map
"Kibera's people deserve to know the facts about their lives" -- Robert Neuwirth, Shadow Cities
Map Kibera http://mapkibera.org/http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Humanitarian_OSM_Teamhttp://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maronhttp://brainoff.com/[email protected]
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