GeoWeb for NonProfits

Andrew TurnerFortiusOne - Mapufacture

andrew@fortiusone.comhttp://highearthorbit.com

Who is @ajturner?

Airships

Vehicle Simulation

Astrium EADS

Vehicle Simulation

Convergence

Convergence uLocate WHERE

Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web

August 2008

By Andrew Turner & Brady ForrestPreface by Tim O’Reilly

An O’Reilly Radar Report

Geo Community

Overview

Fast Overview

A Case Study

http://www.flickr.com/photos/culturesubculture/339185196/

Demolitions

Green Dot Map

Solutions

Solutions =

Solutions Technology=

Solutions Technology + People=

Community Meetings Demolitions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894170436/

Community Meetings Demolitions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2893330201

Community Meetings Demolitions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karenapricot/2894172926

Community Broadmoor

Community Mid-City

Newspapers Demolitions

from Newspaper Listings

http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?tabid=118

to Spreadsheets

http://thinknola.com/permits/2008.htmlhttp://blogometer.com/post/editgrid-zero-to-six

to Maps

http://www.squanderedheritage.com/2008/01/13/google-maps/

to Blog Posts

http://jefflamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/1431-annette/

to Flickr Photos

Brought Together Demolitions

Where is my House? Green Dot Map

wrp.geothings.net Green Dot Map

Taylor’s 1924 Map

Taylor’s Map - Rectified

Open Data Green Dot Map

maps.thinknola.com Save our Schools

Tools to get things done

GoogleMaps http://maps.google.com

Design

Usability

Data Ownership and Access

Data Ownership and Access

Data Coverage and Quality

Data Coverage and Quality

Technology Limitations

Technology Limitations

OpenStreetMap http://openstreetmap.org

What is OpenStreetMap?

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OpenStreetMap - Cape Town

http://openstreetmap.org

OpenStreetMap - Cape Town

http://openstreetmap.org

Wiki for the World

The Process

“Edit”

Collect data

51

Diagram & Notes

52

Upload GPS data

View Tracks in Editor

54

Draw Streets and Points

55

Upload and view Map

Where are the People?

Mapping Parties

What you can do

Website

Map Images

Export to GPS

Mapstraction

Power of the Swap

var mapstraction = new Mapstraction(‘map’, ‘google’);

Power of the Swap

mapstraction.swap(‘mapstraction’, ‘yahoo’);

Power of the Swap

mapstraction.swap(‘mapstraction’, ‘microsoft’);

Power of the Swap

mapstraction.swap(‘mapstraction’, ‘openstreetmap’);

Overlays http://serveyourcountryfood.net

Sliders

OpenLayers http://openlayers.org

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../themes/hearts.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><div id="map" class="hearts smallmap"></div>

.hearts .olControlZoomPanel div { background-image: url(img/hearts/hearts-zoom.png);}.hearts .olControlPanPanel div { background-image: url(img/hearts/hearts-panel.png);}

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../themes/hearts.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><div id="map" class="hearts smallmap"></div>

.hearts .olControlZoomPanel div { background-image: url(img/hearts/hearts-zoom.png);}.hearts .olControlPanPanel div { background-image: url(img/hearts/hearts-panel.png);}

<link rel="stylesheet" href="../themes/hearts.css" type="text/css" media="screen" /><div id="map" class="hearts smallmap"></div>

Accessibility

Datahttp://flickr.com/photos/robfon/2174992215

Don’t Stifle Data

Don’t Stifle Data

...it wants to be freed!

We all learned to share

GeoRSS

GeoRSS

GeoRSS

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GeoRSS

<georss:point>45.256 -71.92

</georss:point>+

GeoRSS

<georss:point>45.256 -71.92

</georss:point>+

GeoRSS

<georss:point>45.256 -71.92

</georss:point>+

GeoNames GeoRSS http://www.geonames.org/rss-to-georss-converter.html

KML<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.2"> <Placemark> <name>Simple placemark</name> <description>Attached to the ground. Intelligently places itself at the height of the underlying terrain.</description> <Point> <coordinates>-122.0822035425683,37.42228990140251,0</coordinates> </Point> </Placemark></kml>

Virtual Globes

The GeoWeb

APIs http://programmableweb.com

Flickr Photos

Local Data http://data.dc.octo.gov

NGO Data http://api.worldbank.org

UN Geo Data http://ungiwg.org

Public Data http://finder.geocommons.com

Content / Placemarking Not everyone is Al Franken.

http://flickr.com/photos/kcivey/2672627281/

Google MyMaps

EditGrid

MediaWiki GeoRSS http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoRSS

Drupal Mapping Kit http://drupal.org/project/mappingkit

GeoPress

Nonline

Ushahidi http://ushahidi.com

GIS

OSGeo http://osgeo.org

QGIS

gvSIG

GeoCommons Maker!

One More Case Study

VoteReport http://twittervotereport.com

Build Something

Come to your Users http://npr.org/votereport

Share your Content http://highearthorbit.com

Share your Content http://highearthorbit.com

http://votereport.us/feeds/1.json , 2.json, 3.json, ...

Share your Content http://tvr.openideals.net

Share your Data http://plodt.com/votereport

Use off-the-shelf components

http://blog.twittervotereport.com

Build a Community

Make Friends and Prepare to Scale

Give Feedback http://votereport.us/reports/stats

Watch Democracy Work http://votereport.us/?q=bad

Analysis + Iterate http://blog.fortiusone.com/2008/11/06/post-election-analysis-and-data/

Solutions Technology People= +

SolutionsTechnology Peoplefor

Asante sana!andrew@fortiusone.com

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