Hărți și instrumente digitale pentru activiști Prezentare Fanfest 2015 @Caminul Cultural - Rosia Montana

1. MAPS AND DIGITAL TOOLS
FOR ACTIVISTS
ALEXANDRU FLORIN BĂDIȚĂ
DIGITAL ACTIVIST
baditaflorin@gmail.com

2. WHEN A MAP IS USEFUL?
ALEXANDRU FLORIN BĂDIȚĂ
Maptivism: Maps for activism,
transparency and engagement
baditaflorin@gmail.com

3. OVERVIEW
• ABOUT ME @ Map Relevance
• Maptivism @ Maps for activism, transparency and engagement
• MAPILLARY @ Open Google Street View
• OPENSTREETMAP @ Open Source Geodatabase
• QGIS @ Make a map
• UMAP @ Simple map making

4. ABOUT ME
• Consultant for the World Bank
• Started the OpenStreetMap Romanian FB Community Page
http://www.facebook.com/osmromania
• Made online and printed maps for : Fanfest, Temps d image, TIFF
• Collaborations with Casa Jurnalistului, Rise Project
• Elections maps
• Data Science / Statistics / WebScraping
• Over 2000 request send on the 544/2001 freedom of information law
• In the future – Send over 200.000 request on the freedom of information law to
all public institutions in Romania

5. ABOUT ME :
CONSULTANT FOR
THE WORLD BANK

6. ABOUT ME :
CONSULTANT FOR
THE WORLD BANK

7. ABOUT ME :
CONSULTANT FOR
THE WORLD BANK

8. ABOUT ME :
CONSULTANT FOR
THE WORLD BANK

9. ABOUT ME :
OPENSTREETMAP ROMANIA

10. ABOUT ME :
OPENSTREETMAP ROMANIA

11. ABOUT ME :
ONLINE AND PRINTED MAPS – TEMPS D`IMAGE

12. ABOUT ME :
ONLINE AND PRINTED MAPS – TIFF

13. ABOUT ME :
ONLINE AND PRINTED MAPS – CASA JURNALISTULUI
HTTP://UMAP.OPENSTREETMAP.FR/EN/MAP/CASA-JURNALISTULUI_35927#12/44.4310/26.1032

14. ABOUT ME :
ONLINE AND PRINTED MAPS – FANFEST

15. ABOUT ME :
2 NOVEMBER 2014 ELECTIONS

16. DATA SCIENCE
STATISTICS
WEBSCRAPING

17. DATA SCIENCE
STATISTICS
WEBSCRAPING

18. 544/2001 LAW

19. 544/2001 LAW

20. 544/2001 LAW

21. 544/2001 LAW

22. 544/2001 LAW

23. 544/2001 LAW

24. MAPTIVISM
MAPS FOR ACTIVISM, TRANSPARENCY AND ENGAGEMENT
• It is estimated as much as 80% of data contains geo-referenced information.
• So, a lot of information can be displayed through maps.
• Digital maps allow easy ways to present large amounts of data and reduce
complexity.
• Activists have found creative ways to use maps, but also development
organizations have to deal with a lot of spatial information.
• Using geo-referenced through maps can improve transparency, and yet not so
many organizations use it.

25. MAPTIVISM
THE POTENTIAL OF MAPPING
• Recognition:
• Ohh, that’s the place we are talking about!
• A feeling of connection: Ohh, actually it´s just around the corner!
• Connecting the dots on complex issues:
• Engagement:
• This has to change! I want to help out

26. MAPTIVISM
MAPS FOR ACTIVISM, TRANSPARENCY AND ENGAGEMENT
http://hotnews.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=310496aed53c42c28086c554e522224d&extent=18.1764,42.7161,32.1071,48.6486

27. MAPTIVISM: LIVE TACTICAL MAPPING
FOR PROTEST SWARMING

28. MAPTIVISM: LIVE TACTICAL MAPPING
FOR PROTEST SWARMING

29. MAPTIVISM:
BOB BURTMAN HIGHLIGHTS
INTRIGUING MAPPING WORK IN HIS
ARTICLE BY THE CEDAR GROVE
INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE
COMMUNITIES.
THROUGH SURVEYS AND PUBLIC
AVAILABLE DATA, THEY WERE ABLE TO
PRODUCE THE MAP BELOW, WHICH
SHOWS THE PARTIAL DISTRIBUTION
OF WATER IN CITY OF ZANESVILLE.

30. MAPILLARY
30,924,104 photos 774,577,813 meters in 8 august 2015
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/lime-street-google-street-view-9837085

31. MAPILLARY
• Geodocument your trips
• Use the geo referenced pictures to add
important details to your map
• Then and Now ability***
• Send real time Georefferenced
information to journalists
• Creative Commons licence
• *** Make a photo of the same location, before
and after a chemical spill / mining activity, fire,
etc and show the two views side by side.
• *** Track a place over time
• Using the filter functions on Mapillary, you can
track a place over time. Compare recent pictures
to older.
30,924,104 photos 774,577,813 meters in 8 august 2015

32. MAPILLARY AS A REVOLUTIONARY TOOL FOR
ACTIVISTS AND JOURNALISTS
• Ability to have near real time geo-tagged images
• Useful for real time / war / protests / civil uprising / undercover
work / journalism narrative documentation.
• Empowers both the normal user, as also the journalists on the
ground, enhance the after work ability of having a better
understanding of the environment , can compare and remember
memories having a 2d reference points

33. MAPILLARY AS A REVOLUTIONARY TOOL FOR
ACTIVISTS AND JOURNALISTS
•Where you would use it ?

34. QGIS
TIME MANAGER
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpzZ12J7H3M&list=PLF97A9E490FB2563D&index=4

35. QGIS
INASAFE

36. OPENSTREETMAP
• History
• Use Cases
• Wiki - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
• Drinking water Example :
• Overpass-turbo http://overpass-turbo.eu/

37. OPENSTREETMAP
• Started in 2004
• Over 2.000.000 volunteers
• Over 4000 academics papers written about OpenStreetMap
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38. 85 MILLION PEOPLE FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD ARE DEPENDED ON THE WHEELCHAIR
Over 500.000 locations have a rating, helping millions of people
with disabilities to plan a trip ahead

39. OPENSTREETMAP WIKI
HTTP://WIKI.OPENSTREETMAP.ORG/WIKI/MAP_FEATURES

40. OPENSTREETMAP WIKI
HTTP://WIKI.OPENSTREETMAP.ORG/WIKI/MAP_FEATURES

41. LETS GET THE DATA

42. OPENSTREETMAP
• Started in 2004

43. OPENSTREETMAP
• Load data into QGIS
• Load data into Umap