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Live Editing Your Map with OpenStreetMap on MapQuest Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University May 6 th and 7 th, 2011.

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1 Live Editing Your Map with OpenStreetMap on MapQuest Center for Geographic Analysis, Harvard University May 6 th and 7 th, 2011

2 MapQuest CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 2 Circa 2000Today

3 2008-2009: Industry Consolidation CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 3 + + -

4 July 2010 – MapQuest “Goes Open” July 2010 MQ @ SOTM $1MM internal fund to improve OSM maps Strategic commitment Not a substitution Not a data blender Enable, enable, enable! CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 4

5 Hiring OSM developers Hosting OSM tech/map meet-ups Publishing open tools & APIs Spurring creation of OSM hot-spots Exposing OSM content on MQ.com Enable, enable, enable! “Going Open”: MapQuest on OpenStreetMap CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 5

6 From Pioneer to…Pioneer CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 6

7 Editing the OSM Map CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 7 Open editing tools Daily/Hourly/Minutely Updates Self-healing network POIs, ‘Ways’, Attributes Importing public GIS data Requires OSM login

8 Agenda for Saturday, May 7 th Confessions of a recovering digital mapper Change detection in a highly-planned culture Commercial maps: the slow lumpy truth OSM on open.mapquest.com Open APIs – no keys necessary! The wisdom of crowds Leading a horse to water polygons Alternate future scenarios CGA Annual Conference - May 2011 Page 8


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