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This is the presentation that I have made during the scholarship talks
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STATE OF TUNISIA 2011
Chedli GhediraDenver – Colorado
10 September 2011
PRESENTATIONTunisia :
TUNISIA : PRESENTATION
•Area : 163 610 km² (Greece, Wisconsin)•Pop : 10 439 600 (Greece, Michigan)•Capital : Tunis•Hosts the most boreal point of Africa•Spoken language : Darija dialect•Official language : Arabic
THE REVOLUTIONKey event in 2011 in Tunisia :
TUNISIA : THE REVOLUTION
• Started : 17 december 2011 in a village named « Sidi Bouzid »
• Reached the capital Tunis : 27 december 2011
• Main effect : Ousting of president Ben Ali on 14 January 2011
Sidi Bouzid
TUNIS
THE REVOLUTION : IMPACT ?
Location Nature Impact OSM updatedTunis Trunk road New name YesTunis Place New name YesBizerte Primary road New name Not yetSousse Primary road New name Not yetMonastir Place New name Not yetSfax Secondary road New name Not yet
STATE OF THE MAP 2011Tunisia :
TUNISIA : STATE OF THE MAP 2011
PROBLEMS & ISSUESOpenStreetMap Tunisia :
PROBLEMS : PEOPLE
• 90% of OpenStreetMap data created by 10 contributors
• Today : 3 or 4 active contributors
• Mailing list unused• Tunisians are not
aware of the benefits of OSM project
PROBLEMS : HARDWARE
• GPS tackers & loggers are not available in Tunisia
• Smart Phones are expensive (3 times the minimum wage)
• Only one car navigation system (4 times the minimum wage)
• Tunisians are not familiar with this technology
PROBLEMS : INFRASTRUCTURE
• Street names are not always mentionned / readable
• Sometimes we notice two different names for the same street or two different spellings
MAIN PROBLEM : DICTATORSHIP
• Dictatorship hates :– Freedom– Every project not under control– Alternative solutions– Different minds/thinking– NGOs
• Tunisians were discouraged from joining organisations/having volunteer activity
OPPORTUNITIESOpenStreetMap Tunisia :
OPPORTUNITIES : REVOLUTION
• Democracy• Contact with the Open Source
Software Unit Chief at Ministry of Communication and Technologies
• New government aware of free software benefits
• Mapping parties allowed/encouraged• My first GPS tracker
MY WORKOpenStreetMap Tunisia :
MY WORK : STATS
Nodes Ways Relations OSM Data Date
... created: 10032 924 2 2011-06-19
... touched: 11831 3700 9 2011-06-19
... are the last modifier of: 8441 1153 1 (daily)
... have the following ranks: #7127 #6190 #10837 (daily)
Contribution to OSM in percent (last modifier): (0.0007%) (0.0011%) (0.0001%)
ChangeSets Changes First Changeset Last Changeset
1093 27080 Mon Mar 16 2009 Sat Aug 20 2011
(weekly Changesets update)
http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?Chdoula
Joined OSM on July 25th, 2008
MY WORK : MAP
•Mapped all Tunisian highways•Creation of the Tunisian mailing list•Several adds to the wiki page•Organised the first vote about admin borders
THANK YOU !State of Tunisia 2011 :