New CartographersOpen 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 MapsPresentation and Training