 New Cartographers Open Street Map

Outline for Today’s Class  Recap/Clarifications  What’s Next? Crisis Mapping Technologies  Quick NGO Team Meeting  “Cluster” meeting  OSM Presentation and Training

 Recap

Clarifications  Blogs  All future required posts will be group posts (please put under group leader’s account)  Each post is public to the entire community, which is a good thing  Social Media Etiquette  Add a picture (doesn’t HAVE to be your face)  Fill out your profile, people do read them

Clarifications  Presentation  Today is informal, meant to be short & sweet  First ‘Ignite’ isn’t until Class 4, I will give you an example Class 3  Keep up with the feedback

 So what’s next?

Open Street Maps  What is it?  A free Wiki world map  Problems it addresses  Not all of the world is mapped  Fills gap left by official maps  Limitations  It’s created by volunteers  Challenges to accuracy and verification

 Open Street Maps – Map Kibera

Ushahidi  What is it?  Open-source platform for information collection, visualization, and interactive mapping  Why is it important?  Allows ordinary citizens to interact with spatial data  Limitations  It is not an end of itself  Only as strong as the program around it

 Ushahidi Haiti

 Snowmagaddon

Google Earth/Google Maps  What are they?  Openly available platforms that brought mapping capabilities to the general public  Problems it addresses  Made mapping accessible  First creation of mash-ups  Limitations  Google Earth is not interactive  Data does not create itself

 Google Earth - Darfur

 Google MyMaps – Forest Fires

FrontlineSMS  What is it?  Open-source two-way communication hub  Why is it important?  Greatly increases range of communication tools to NGOs  Decreases traditional barriers of communication  Limitations  Technology isn’t compatible everywhere  Text messages still cost money

 FrontlineSMS

 NGO Meeting

Details  There will be a cluster meeting in 15 minutes  The director wants you to present a quick, 3 minute overview, of the details of your memo  You will be cut off after 3 minutes but you will have 1 minute to answer additional questions

Presentation Rubric  Clarity of Presentation  Inclusion of key points  Evidence of Analysis and Reflection  Time keeping

 Open Street Maps Presentation and Training