this mapping thing could really take off

Over 100 people

From 5 countries

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This Mapping Stuff Could Really Take Off

SteveC

We begin with a refrain...

Rember that OSM Evolved

We just hit 1,000 people editing per month

PAST

Where did we begin?

It began...

09-Aug-200418:47:25 UTC

Or did it?

OSM Through History

2004

2005

§

2006

Rember that OSM Evolved

Mapping parties really worked well

2007

Month of OSM

Digital Pioneers NL

PRESENT

Data Models

It started with nodes

then segments

then much later,ways

The API design infected the UI

nodes, then segments, then ways

Rember that OSM Evolved

...only much later do we find that the model,

despite much argument, is what Real Companies

basically use

Some Lessons

Segments were supposed to be tagged

Tags worked really well...

...but there were supposed to be tag

equivalences

Tags create debateTags create community

WFS-T is still dumbN/S/W simplicity wins

Google Tiles have killed WMS

Workflow was supposed to be split -

•GPS•Vectorisation•Classification

How to run aF/LOSS project

Don’t listen to anyone, they only say everything

is impossible

Don’t listen to anyone, they only say everything

is possible

In short - nobody is pragmatic

Pragmatism wins

Concentrate on community

(it helps if you wrote all the server code too)

This means debates (tags), pubs (mapping parties), simplicity (N/S/W) and

spreading the gospel (talks)

I’ve given over 40 presentations on OSM

in 6 countries...

...and lots of people still haven’t heard of

wikipedia

Give people doing the work responsibility

(sysadmin, tile, www, OSMF)

Ignore everyone else

(unless flamewars look fun)

We only got here by totally ignoring the GIS

industry

•GPS Inaccurate•WFS-T required•Tags will never work•Database will be too big•OS have mastermap

FUTURE

Data:UK-US comparison

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

US GeoData Maket

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

US GeoData Maket

TIGER

TIGER-derived(mostly)

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

UK GeoData Maket

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

UK GeoData Maket

OSM

OS

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

UK GeoData Maket

OSM

OS

I’m ignoring ex-copyright data as its place is very

debatable

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

UK GeoData Maket

OSM

OS

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

UK GeoData Maket

OSM

OS

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

UK GeoData Maket

OSM

OS

We’ve seen this before

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

OS Market

Linux

Windows

‘Quality’

Price

100 ‘%’

OS Market

Linux

Windows

(Think price per feature)

The future is croudsourced

knowledge

maps

OS

This is just the beginning

Everything is going to be croudsourced

PhonesTV

MoneyWorkDataNews

AccomodationTravel

knowledgemapsOS

All these are doing is removing the obstacles

OrdnanceSurvey

Maps People

MapsPeoplePeople

BanksPeople People

MoneyPeoplePeople

Coase’s Penguin

•Non-monetary motivation

•Discrete multi-size pieces

•Low-cost integration

(Yochai Benkler)

Commons-based Peer Production:

Coase’s Penguin

•Fun

•Takes 5 minutes

•Easy

(Yochai Benkler)

Commons-based Peer Production:

Should OSM be an open map...

...or a Socialist Utopia?

PhonesTV

MoneyWorkDataNews

AccomodationTravel

knowledgemapsOS

$$$

Kernel, XFree, KDE &c.

Data models...

We *still* don’t have PostgreSQL, geoSQL or a new data model

It remains to be seen whether anyone will

ever do the work

We don’t know when the UK / World will be

finished(mid-2008 anyone?)

Or what map maintenance will look like

(opposed to map creation)

We know we’re going to be at least 50% wrong

(Rember that OSM will Evolve)

But it will be fun.

The journey is the reward

Thanks for all the maps

Steve Coast