[OSGeo-Discuss] [Geo4All] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

[Suchith Anand]

There are so many examples of close collaboration of both communities .One recent example of joining efforts  was in the relief efforts following Nepal earthquake in 2015 [1] which saved thousands of lives. OSGL Kathmandu University lead by Dr Shashish Maharjan and  whole team along with many students and volunteers were key in helping the recovery efforts. They have been carrying out many activities from piloting of household surveys for detail earthquake assessment all using open tools and open data. Colleagues globally joined to help   from developing emergency route planner for Nepal that colleagues at Heidelberg made (Alexander Zipf et al)[2]  to the various humanitarian mapping done by our labs and students globally.

GeoForAll is working closely with Humanitarian Open Street Map team. In cooperation with HOT and Missing Maps, the team led by Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli, Dr. Marco Minghini, Dr. Monia Molinari and Dr. Aldo Torrebruno showed 200 children how to map buildings in the northernmost part of Swaziland in a project for malaria elimination[3]

Yesterday I was giving a keynote for EuroGeo2017 in Amsterdam and  I used this example to show how OpenSteetMap is helping communities around the world.

https://www.slideshare.net/SuchithAnand/open-principles-in-geoeducation

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/the-open-source-maps-that-made-rescues-in-nepal-possible/


Open data is fundamental to OSGeo and GeoForAll and our collaborations with OSM locally and globally is natural synergies.

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1]  http://opensourcegeospatial.icaci.org/2015/04/mapping-response-contributions-for-nepal/

[2] https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/meldungen/2015/m20150505_emergency-route-planner-for-nepal-on-the-internet.html

[3] https://hotosm.org/updates/2016-03-09_200_kids_map_swaziland_for_malaria_elimination



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From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com>
Sent: 02 March 2017 11:07 PM
To: Till Adams
Cc: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org; discuss at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] [OSGeo-Discuss] The Rise of Open Street Map as a World Mapping Agency

On 2 March 2017 at 15:16, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:
> Hi Jachym,
>

Hi all,

> in short we invited the OSM people to join our conference not only as
> participants. In the first year (I think it was 2010) we had our regular
> FOSSGIs conference followed by one day OSM talks. We switched at noon, so
> that communities could meet.
>
> From 2011 on we mixed up both worlds in a classical 2 tracks FOSS and 1
> track OSM. Active members of both communities can attend the conference for
> free.
>
> Being a member of FOSSGIS program committee for many years, I noticed, that
> subsequently the handed in talks became more and more "universal". While we
> could assign talks to OSM or FOSS track quite good in the first years, we
> now have a much more mix-up and especially for 2017 many talks could be
> assigned to both, OSM AND FOSS track.
>
> Also, the awareness of people from the "other" community became much better
> and (only my guess), quite a few OSM-people joined FOSSGIS as registered
> members.
> For my business it's also cool to know people, that have really deep
> knowledge of OSM and the OSM community.
>
> Enough success story?
>

Yes, good choices...

In Italy OSM-people choose to join Wikimedia Italia, but this year we
had a joined conference in Genova and it was quite a success, so we
are thinking to replicate next year.

> Till ;-)
>


--
ciao
Luca

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