Introduction to OpenStreetMap Seminar at United Nations Geographical Information Working Group Istanbul Meeting.

1. OpenStreetMap
"Free the map!"
H. Can Ünen, Ph.D.
I.T.U., OSM-Turkey
Orkut Murat Yılmaz
Nemedya, OSM-Turkey

2. ● Open Data
● Crowdsourcing
● OpenStreetMap
○ Map
○ Introduction
○ OSM Worldwide
○ OSM in Turkey
○ Capacity
● OpenDiscussion / Demo

3. Open Data

4. Open Data
The idea that certain data should be
● freely available to everyone to use
● and republish as they wish,
● without restrictions from copyright, patents or
other mechanisms of control.

5. Open Data
● Open Data could be textual just like
Wikipedia.
● Or non-textual, such as maps, genomes,
connectomes, chemical compounds,
mathematical and scientific formulae,
medical data and practice, bioscience and
biodiversity.

6. Open Data
● "Data belong to the human race".
● Public money was used to fund the work and
so it should be universally available.
● Facts cannot legally be copyrighted.
● In scientific research, the rate of discovery is
accelerated by better access to data.

7. Open Data / The "Open" Concept
● Open access
● Open research/Open science/Open science
data
● Open knowledge
● Open Source

8. Open Data / In Government

9. Open Data / In Government
● data.gov
● data.gov.uk (Hail to Sir Tim Berners Lee)
● data.govt.nz
● opengovdata.ru

10. Open Data Institute
● Established by Tim Berners-Lee & Prof.
Nigel Shadbolt.
● Catalyses the evolution of an open data
culture to create economic, environmental,
and social value.

11. Crowdsourcing
● Genesis of crowdsourcing can be taken as
the start of open source movement.
● The new media: Content is created by
amateurs.
● People come together to perform tasks,
usually for little or no money.

12. Crowdsourcing
● Not a product of an economist or
management consultant or marketing guru.
● Arose out of the uncoordinated actions of
people, who were doing things that people
like to do, in the companionship of other
people.

13. Crowdsourcing

14. Crowdsourcing
● Labor can be organized more efficiently in
communities than corporations.
"The best person to do a job is the one who
wants to do it most."
● "Given the right set of conditions, the crowd
will always outperform any number of
employees."
(Jeff Howe, Crowdsourcing, 2009)

15. Crowdsourcing
● Contrary to the general opinion that the
internet isolates people from each other,
crowdsourcing uses this medium for
collaboration and sharing between people
from any background in any geographical
location.
● Contrary to conventional wisdom, people do
not always behave in self-interested
patterns.

16. Crowdsourcing
● Companies abandon their tech-support
departments and replace them with user
forums.
● CNN, BBC, Gannett, Reuters, etc. have
started to crowdsource local events
internationally instead of assigning
professionally trained journalists.
● Crowdsourcing is not cheap labour nor a
free ride! All successful crowdsourcing
efforts share deep commitment from the
user base.

17. Crowdsourcing
It is the mechanism by which such talent and
knowledge is matched to those in need of it.

18. Crowdsourcing
Reliability of crowdsourcing?
corienb, female from dani4ever92, female from murtaza88, male from
the Netherlands the Netherlands France
The crowd is self-moderated!

19. OpenStreetMap
OPEN DATA CROWDSOURCING

20. Map
A map is the scaled,
symbolized
representation of a region
of the Earth projected
onto a planar surface.
Image: Map of Piri Reis

21. OpenStreetMap
● 2004, Steve Coast (University College London)
● Influenced by the success of Wikipedia and the access
restrictions to the British Ordnance Survey archives.
● Is basically a large spatial database operating on ODBL
(Open Database License)
● First users and contributors were mainly bikers tracking
their biking routes.

22. OpenStreetMap
www.openstreetmap.org
● OpenLayers-based slippy
user interface.
● Maps are displayed as tiles
generated by Mapnik
rendering engine.

23. OpenStreetMap
DATA SOURCES:
● Field Surveys
○ GPS tracks, personal local knowledge
● Open Public Data
○ U.S.A., Canada, Great Britain
● Open Private Sector Data
○ Yahoo, Microsoft (Bing Images)

24. OpenStreetMap

25. OpenStreetMap

26. OpenStreetMap
Potlatch 2

27. OpenStreetMap

28. OpenStreetMap
OpenFixMap
(Android)
OSMapTuner GoMap!!
OSM QA Editor (editor.
(Android) osmsurround.org)
(iOS)

29. OpenStreetMap
Be careful about your data sources!!!
● Copyright infringement must be avoided when
contributing to OpenStreetMap.
○ Using data sources which are not provided in OSM
editors (JOSM, Potlatch, etc.) should be avoided.
● e.g.: Legal terms of Google does not allow data
production using Google Maps and Google Earth.
○ Trap streets!!

30. OpenStreetMap
Worldwide:
● More than 1 million registered OSMappers since
January, 13th.

31. OpenStreetMap
http://opengeodata.org/some-europen-openstreetmap-growth-statistics

32. OpenStreetMap
http://opengeodata.org/some-europen-openstreetmap-growth-statistics

33. OpenStreetMap
http://opengeodata.org/some-europen-openstreetmap-growth-statistics

34. OpenStreetMap
Worldwide Events:
● Mapping Parties
Mappy Hour (Toronto)
● Developer Meetings
Hack Weekends (London, Karlsruhe, Toronto, etc.)
● Conferences, Workshops
State of The Map, Geoinformatik

35. OpenStreetMap

36. OpenStreetMap
Humanitarian OSM Team
● Launched in 2009
○ Aim to connect humanitarian actors and open
mapping communities
○ Remote data creation during crises
○ Promote crowdsourcing and simple web standards
for data sharing
● Also in association with:

37. OpenStreetMap

38. OpenStreetMap
OSM Turkey Community
● A Newly Developing Community
● lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-tr
● www.facebook.com/groups/osm.turkey/
● openstreetmap.org.tr

39. OpenStreetMap
OSM Turkey / Events
One week mapping party @Karacabey

40. OpenStreetMap
OSM Turkey / Events
Workshop @Istanbul HackerSpace

41. OpenStreetMap
OSM Turkey / Agenda
Free Software And Linux Days (April 5/6)

42. OpenStreetMap
OSM Turkey / Van Earthquake

43. OpenStreetMap
OSM Turkey / Van Earthquake
● After Van Earthquake, HOT and People from
Van mapped the Erciş
● A social media crowdsourcing work

44. OpenStreetMap
Why Weak in Turkey?
● Conception of "free!"
● Monopolistic behavior
"I want to own and control the data."
● Most people still believe in myths &
conspiracy, such as "free and open source is
not secure".

45. OpenStreetMap

46. OpenStreetMap
by Onur Güngör (OSM-TR)

47. OpenStreetMap
What now?
● Extend the user-base
● Socialize
○ Mapping Parties
○ Hack Days
● Educate (Academic OSM Initiative of Turkey)
● Collaborate (NGO, GO, Private Sector)

48. Not the End.