openstreetmap past, present and future
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OPENSTREETMAPPAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Peter BattyUbisense@pmbatty
Crowdsourcing changes everything!!!
(Scene from State of the Map 2011)
CONTRIBUTORS
Mike DolbowSt Paul, MN
Steve ChiltonUK
Bernie ConnorsNew Brunswick, Canada
Jens WinbladhKolding, Denmark
Kate Chapmanaka @wonderchook
Washington, DC (or Bali?)
Richard FairhurstUK
Jonathan RaperUK
Pascal NeisHeidelberg, Germany
PAST
December 3, 2007
July 7, 2009
Google OpenStreetMap
What about quality?
“OSM quality is beyond good enough, it is a product that can be used for a wide range of activities”
Dr Muki Haklay of UCL
Based on a detailed analysishttp://tinyurl.com/mukiosm
2007 dataDatabase
69 countries
11m miles (18m km) of roads
18m points of interest
PeopleField force 700Central production 270Technology 500Total 3349
Financial Revenue $853m (~€604m) Data creation & distribution costs $396m (~€280m)
“Creating, maintaining and delivering a comprehensive, high quality map database is a multi-step, labor-intensive process. We
currently employ over 270 employees in our centralized production facility and a global
workforce of over 700 geographic analysts in 32 countries”
WHY BOTHER?
It’s fun!!Map what you want
It’s usefulFaster corrections
It’s free!!Access to vector dataDownload to mobile devicesSupported by many cool development toolsCan use for asset tracking, turn by turn directions, etc
As a developerAs a mapper / user
PRESENT
Cape RoyalGrand Canyon, AZ
USACropston
England
Denver, COUSA
Denver, COUSA
“Mousetrap” junction of I-25 and I-70
DATA EDITING
Editing with Potlatch 2
StraightenCircle
SquareParallel
HUMANITARIAN OSM TEAM (HOT)
January 31, 2009
Haiti - January 12, 2010
Haiti - January 14, 2010
Haiti - January 26, 2010
Damage Assessment
I am currently in Port Au Prince with the Fairfax County Urban
Search & Rescue Team (USA-1) out of Fairfax, VA, USA. I wish
there was a way that I can express to you properly how important
your OSM files were to us.
Kate ChapmanExecutive Director of HOT
We are working with the Australia-Indonesia Facility for Disaster Reduction to collect exposure data using OpenStreetMap. We are working with 5 universities
to collect urban data and community facilitators in rural areas to collect the information there. The goal
is to collect 3 attributes about each building (number of floors, wall type and
roof type). That will then be fed into risk modeling software.
Currently it is a three month pilot to determine the feasibility of using OSM for this. With the rural
facilitators they are already doing poverty mapping and we are just aiming to give them better tools in
order to improve what they are doing as well as get them to collect some more data for the risk models.
It turns out the attributes we are interested in also can feed into the poverty analysis so they are really
excited about it.
New HOT project in Indonesia
Kampung Bali
Correcting Information
ROUTING
Danish Working Environment Authority (Arbejdstilsynet)
Android application called VIVI shows inspectors route between sites. Chose
OSM because of licensing terms and availability of open source software.
Runs on Galaxy Tab
http://bit.ly/multimodaltripplanner
“a good puzzle would be to cross Dublin
without passing a pub”
James JoyceUlysses
APPLICATIONS
DEVELOPMENT
http://kothic.org/js/
JavaScript map rendering engine
Renders OSM data similarly to MapnikMapCSS support for map stylingRenders from lightweight GeoJSON-like tilesEasy integration with Leaflet
FUTURE
The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
The more I realize I don't know, the more I want to learn
Only solutions that produce partial results when partially implemented can succeed
What is, is wrong
Orgel's Rule: "Evolution is cleverer than you are"
evolvable systems
Clay Shirky, 1996
80-20rule
Centrally designed
Evolvable
shirky.com/writings/evolve.html
Strategic Areas for OSM
Managing Trust, Workflow and Validation
Licensing and Legal
Focus / Scope
Relationship with “the big guys”
(From my SOTM 2009 talk)
Passive crowdsourcing
Mobile
Simplicity
Gamification
Photo by Steve Punter - http://flic.kr/p/5qXFV9
Licensing :(
OpenStreetMap openstreetmap.org
http://bit.ly/osmforks
Forks
CommonMap commonmap.infoSharedMap sharedmap.org
FreeOSM freeosm.orgUSGS (internal)
Photo by tonystl - http://flic.kr/p/mBNVh
Longer (and uncensored) version at http://bit.ly/pythonsplitters
(Monty Python video from Life of Brian here)
Public Domain?
Mobile applications
Photo by drewleavy - http://flic.kr/p/6BjDzL Photo by kylezoa - http://flic.kr/p/6sA5V9
Different GoalsPhoto by D'Arcy Norman - http://flic.kr/p/8jYHTT
Hide the complexityPhoto by nerovivo - http://flic.kr/p/zWeRv
Validation, Trust, Workflow
http://flic.kr/p/6GuX54
GamificationPivoting to Monetize Mobile Hyperlocal
Social Gamification by Going Viral
Passive crowdsourcing
my iPhone location log on Google Fusion Tables
8. What other location data is Apple collecting from the iPhone besides crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower data?Apple is now collecting anonymous traffic data to build a crowd-sourced traffic database with the goal of providing iPhone users an improved traffic service in the next couple of years.
iPhone sales by quarter
Total sold by Q3 2011
128,964,000
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MAP
