1) OpenStreetMap is being used as a catalyst for open geo data in Italy, with a growing community of mappers and supporters. 2) OSM allows people to collaboratively collect and map geographic data for the entire planet, helping with disaster response and humanitarian efforts. 3) While some Italian public agencies are starting to release open geo data, many still have restrictions, in contrast to OSM which uses an open license model.

1. Open Geo Data in Italy
and
the OpenStreetMap case
Maurizio Napolitano
„Disaster 2.0 - are we ready?“ - May 7 2012 Torino

2. Index
Overview from the Open Government Geodata in Italy
OpenStreetMap as catalyst in Italy
The neogeographers
The OpenStreetMap Project
OpenStreetMap in disaster emergency
The italian OpenStreetMap Community

3. Italian P.A. and geodata acces
Dark Green → download allowed
Light Green → wms service only
Regions and autonomous provinces

4. Italian P.A. and geodata with license
Where is a text with
an explicit license
Regions and autonomous provinces

5. Italian P.A. and open geodata
Green → an open data license
Orange → no commercial restriction
= no open data
Regions and autonomous provinces

6. Other cases
● Portale Cartografico Nazionale
– License no commercial
● Cities:
– Bologna, Firenze, Forlí, Merano, Pavia, Schio, Storo, Trento, Vicenza
[…]
● ISTAT
– Atlas of statistical and administrative geography

7. The role of OpenStreetMap in Italy
Good community
Mapping Party
Ex M'appare Milano, Genova
Support from some italian public
administration
Support from GFOSS.it and other
initiatives (ex schools)
in mosts cases with a basic contradiction: OpenStreetMap is an Open Data project (ODbL license)

8. What is OpenStreetMap?
OpenStreetMap is a
free editable map of
~
the entire planet. It
made ​by people like
you.
Born
Steave Coast (2009) July 2004
500.000+ contributors
Fans&Supporters: Microsoft Bing, Apple, MapQuest, ESRI, World Bank, Geocaching, Nestoria, …
More examples here http://ww.switch2osm.org

9. The gis wikification
The wikification of GIS and its consequences: Or Angelina Jolie’s new tattoo and the future of GIS
paper here http://tinyurl.com/gis-jolie

10. Spatial is Special?
NO! YES!
● Data are data ● The geodata requires
accuracy and
● The Geographical
knowledge
Information Systems are
very well defined ● A map is a complex
database but simple to
understand
Spatial is Indeed Special…but GIS Software Skills will Soon be Obsolete
http://justinholman.com/2012/03/20/spatial-is-indeed-special/

11. Who?
People and vehicles of OpenStreetMap
(slide from Niccolo Rigacci – http://www.rigacci.org - CC-BY-SA-NC)

12. HOW?

14. Gather the data
(slide from Niccolo Rigacci – http://www.rigacci.org - CC-BY-SA-NC)

16. Attributes and Geometry
NODE WAY RELATION
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features

17. Collect data
(from gps)

18. Collect data
(image tracing)

19. Collect Data
by walking papers
http://walkingpapers.org/print.php?id=d6rzwc3d

20. Collect data
(improve the job made by others)

21. Collect the data
contribute to temathic maps
http://wheelmap.org

23. Official (mapnik)
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=44.493944&lon=11.343526&zoom=18&layers=A

24. In different ways

25. In different ways

26. In different ways

27. Per tutti i gusti ...
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services

28. Giro d'Italia – 1/2
Tappa “Herning­Herning” – http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2012/it/tappa.shtml?t=01&lang=it

29. Giro d'Italia – 2/2

30. Map Compare - Sarajevo
http://goo.gl/8O5PS

31. Map Compare - Trento
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=11.11372&lat=46.07098&zoom=18

32. Some outputs
(tools)
Bus Stop inforgraphics
http:/www.maposmatic.org Košice (SK)

33. Some outputs
(companies)
Softcities.net

34. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

35. HOT – Core Mission
connecting point between humanitarian and open mapping
communities
remote data creation during crisis
collection and organization of existing data sources
deployments to the field possible
distribution point for free data
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hot

36. Projects
Current Past
2012 Mali Crisis 2011 Samoa Cyclone Simulation
Philippines - Storm Ondoy
Ivory Coast
Iran -- Post-Election Crisis
Horn of Africa Famine Gaza
[...]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hot#Projects

37. Map Kibera
http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron/map-kibera-at-where-20
http://tools.geofabrik.de/mc/?mt0=mapnik&mt1=googlemap&lon=36.86276&lat=-1.26065&zoom=18

38. Haiti

39. Map evolution
HAITI

40. OpenStreetMap in action

43. Pakistan
Ivory Coast
Libia
Japan
...

44. Join HOT
http://tasks.hotosm.org

47. The OpenStreetMap italian community

48. Data indicatos
http://www.gfoss.it/osm/stat

49. TagInfo Italy
http://taginfo.hanskalabs.net

50. Contributed users (1/2)
http://goo.gl/cOetZ

51. Contributed users (2/2)
http://goo.gl/cOetZ

52. Date of eldest edit
http://goo.gl/nkIRd

53. Thanks!
Thanks
Twitter: napo
Blog: http://de.straba.us
Email: napo@fbk.eu
Slides: http://slideshare.net/napo