SOTM2009 Lightning Talk 7/12/2009 Amsterdam

1. Mapping of
Historical
Sites
in Japan
Kinya Inoue

2. Do you know Japan?
Japan
Small
Far Eastern
Country

3. Japan 日本
Fukushima City
Tokyo

4. 2008 A Year of My Mapping
These are my Logs from last year.
I love OSM.

5. Fukushima area April 2008

6. Fukushima area June 2009

7. I often map towns.

8. And often map highways.
R115 in Soma city

9. I've mapped coastlines too.
Haragama Harbor

10. I've also mapped some Volcanos.
Azuma_kofuji Volcano

11. Mapping of Volcanos with my family.

12. I mapped this Roller Coaster.

13. Roller Coaster Log.

14. Mapping of Historical Sites
in Japan

15. Today I'll introduce some Mapping of historical sites in the East Japan area.

16. First, ZOJOJI Buddhist Temple
ZOJOJI is a famous Buddhist temple
in Tokyo.

17. ZOJOJI Temple of Buddhism

18. Mapping of ZOJOJI Log
We can use only low resolution satellite photos in Japan.
Landsat pictures are not clear enough for detailed mapping.
Walking a lot and recording a lot of points are necessary for
detailed mapping in Japan.

19. Before Mapping of ZOJOJI

20. After Mapping of ZOJOJI

21. YASUKUNI Shrine Shinto Shrine
YASUKUNI Shrine is a famous Shinto Shrine .

22. YASUKUNI Shrine Shinto Shrine
YASUKUNI Shrine is in Tokyo
near the Imperial Palace.

23. YASUKUNI Shrine Shinto Shrine
Five million people visit YASUKUNI shrine
every year to commemorate
who died in wars.

24. Mapping of YASUKUNI Shrine Log

25. Before Mapping of YASUKUNI Shrine

26. After Mapping of YASUKUNI Shrine

27. TSURUGAOKA Shrine Shinto Shrine

28. TSURUGAOKA Shrine Shinto Shrine

29. TSURUGAOKA Shrine Shinto Shrine

30. TSURUGAOKA Shrine Shinto Shrine
TSURUGAOKA Shrine has about 800 years of history.

31. TSURUGAOKA Shrine Shinto Shrine
The samurai practiced their religion at this shrine.

32. Mapping of TSURUGAOKA Shrine Log

33. Before Mapping of TSURUGAOKA Shrine

34. After Mapping of TSURUGAOKA Shrine

35. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City

36. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City
Tsuruga-jo castle has about 600 years of history.

37. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City
Tsuruga-jo is in the center of Aizu Wakamatsu City.
The castle is surrounded by the deep moats and the stone walls.

38. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City

39. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City

40. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City
This building was rebuilt 45 years ago.

41. Tsuruga-jo Castle in Aizu Wakamatsu City

42. Mapping of Tsuruga-jo Castle Logs

43. Mapping of Tsuruga-jo Castle Logs
Now Tsuruga-jo Castle is a Public park.
The outer perimeter Tsuruga-jo Castle is about 2.5km.
I want to do detailed mapping.
Then, I walked about 23km.
around the outer regions of the castle on this day.

44. Mapping of Turuga-jo Castle Logs

45. I walked and walked.

46. I recorded a lot of points.

47. Before Mapping of Tsuruga-jo Castle

48. After Mapping of Tsuruga-jo Castle

49. After Mapping of Tsuruga-jo Castle

50. I ha ave s a e nt .
d ry c ry ve
I was concentrating very deeply about
mapping the castle and walking around to
various places around the castle.

51. I was walking and mapping on the retaining_wall
that surronds the castle. Let's go map!!

52. Let's go map! Walk and Walk!

53. Let's go map! Walk and Walk!

54. OH NO!
I was in a dangerous zone.

55. I noticed that I was standing on a wall behind some
targets that were being used for Japanese Archery.
Some pepole were practicing Archery.
Training field
for Archery.

56. Let's go map!

57. Mapping of Historical Sites in Japan
Thank you !
Kinya Inoue
Will you map in Japan ?