Philippine Geospatial Forum Presentation 20130311

Maning Sambale

Maptivist

Covert memberWorldwide Campaign to Eliminate Needless North

ArrowsInternational Crusade Against Useless Scale Bars

The New Golden Age of

"digital" Cartography

Philippine Geospatial ForumUP Geography Department

March 11, 2013

Open Source

Open Data

Open Collaboration

Internet

Free and Open Source

use for any purpose; study and adopt to your own

needs; redistribute and;

improve and share to the public.

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

QGIS on Ubuntu Linux; MS Windows; Mac OSX and; Android Tablet.

http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/qgis-is-for-the-93/

For whatever OS

Loosely coupled but integrated tools

Free and Open Source GEOhttp://live.osgeo.org

Quantum GISDesktop GIS

http://live.osgeo.org

GRASS GISIntegrated suite for modelling,

visualization and data management

http://live.osgeo.org

OpenlayersBrowser mapping library

http://live.osgeo.org

GeoserverManaging web services

http://live.osgeo.org

PostGISSpatial database

http://live.osgeo.org

GNU RStatistical computing

http://live.osgeo.org

GDAL/OGRData translation library

http://live.osgeo.org

TileMillMap design studio

http://live.osgeo.org

Others

Pythongeneral purpose programing

language

Githubfork, copy, share code

Availability of the code is necessary forOpen Science

"scientific communication relies on evidence that cannot be entirely

included in publications", but "anything less than the release of

source programs is intolerable for results that depend on computation".

Ince, D.C., et al. (2010). The case for open computer programs. Nature 482, 485–488. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/nature10836.html

Open GEO Data

OpenStreetMap

The Wikipedia for Maps

Geospatial data for free so that you can use it

for any creative purposeyou can think of!

http://openstreetmap.org

http://vimeo.com/49003594

Contributors of OpenStreetMap

http://openstreetmap.org

Contributors of OpenStreetMap

http://openstreetmap.org

Contributors of OpenStreetMap

http://openstreetmap.org

Contributors of OpenStreetMap

http://openstreetmap.org

Contributors of OpenStreetMap

http://openstreetmap.org

Citizen Aerial ImageryBalloon Mapping

http://publiclaboratory.org/home

z

http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/helium-high/

UshahidiCrowdsourced geolocated events

http://www.ushahidi.com/

Common criticisms to open, distributed, collaborative GEO

projects

Accuracy/Reliability?Authoritativeness?

Good enough for now

Quick-and-simple (but extensible) designs over

elaborate systems designed by committees.

Quickly deployed, evolve as needed, driven by user

requirements.

Fit for purposesuitable for the intended purpose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_good_enoughhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_assurance

Some examples

GNU/LinuxMP3 format

GmailSRTM 90M DEM

Project NOAH website

More GEO examples

MapQuest

http://mapquest.com/

Foursquare

http://foursquare.com

Apple's iPhoto

WB's Mapping for Results

http://maps.worldbank.com

Contingency Planning for Disaster

http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-01-18_openstreetmap_usage_in_jakarta_flood_response

Monitoring Pollution

http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/10/with-public-lab-a-camera-flies-in-brooklyn-to-monitor-pollution273.html

Disaster Response (Ondoy)

http://mapaction.org

Disaster Response (Sendong)

http://mapaction.org

Disaster Response (Pablo)

http://mapaction.org

DSWD Pablo Response Monitoring

Photo by Leonard Doylehttp://m.dswd.gov.ph

https://pablo.crowdmap.com/

To eat!

To wear!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/incanus/8092012070/in/pool-2118705@N23

Who is the crowd?

Ian Lopezhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ianlopez1115

Contributors of OpenStreetMaphttp://openstreetmap.org

Ian Lopezhttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ianlopez1115

Contributors of OpenStreetMaphttp://openstreetmap.org

Ikiyahttp://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya

http://www.slideshare.net/ikiya_OSM/fukushima-mapping-before-and-after-the-disaster

http://www.slideshare.net/ikiya_OSM/fukushima-mapping-before-and-after-the-disaster

http://www.slideshare.net/ikiya_OSM/fukushima-mapping-before-and-after-the-disaster

Michal Migurskihttp://mike.teczno.com/

http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/

“Usable line generalization for OSM roads and routes has been a hobby project of mine

…”

“I’ve finally put the last piece of this project with the use of Amazon's Hadoop

distribution to parallelize the geometry processing.”

“The entire process is exactly equivalent to this:”

cat input | mapper | sort | reducer > output

“If you don’t need the results fast, save the five bucks and let it run overnight.

If you don’t use spot pricing, this same job would have cost $40 slow or $78 fast.”

“To try all this yourself, I’ve set up a bucket with sample data from the OSM route relations job.”

http://mike.teczno.com/notes/elephants-osm-hadoop.htmlhttps://github.com/migurski/Skeletron

Mike Bostockhttp://bost.ocks.org/mike/

http://d3js.org/

"My employer, The New York Times, generously sponsors my open-source work. Most of my recent projects are listed on my

GitHub profile."

- Mike Bostock

If everybody can do it, are we still relevant?

As geospatial professionals, what do we make out of this situation?

Managing signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-09-13/

“Like guns and crosses, maps can be

good or bad, depending on who’s holding them, who

they’re aimed at, how they’re used, and

why.”

Mark MonmonierHow to Lie with Maps

Ethical issues, community privacy on

open access data

Citizen engagement with open government data

for governance and transparency

Cartographic visualizations for effective communication

The New Golden Age of "digital"

CartographyYOU

Maning Sambale

emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com

http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/

Credits and URLs

The Simpsons Movie

http://www.lolriot.com/2012/10/01/funny-pictures-102-35-images/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-which-of-these-is-not-a-web-browser/

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/tdy-130115-concert-phones.photoblog600.jpg

http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

http://live.osgeo.org

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/n7386/full/nature10836.html

http://www.openstreetmap.org/

http://publiclaboratory.org/home

http://www.ushahidi.com/

http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-01-18_openstreetmap_usage_in_jakarta_flood_response

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_good_enough

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_assurance

http://www.mapaction.org

http://m.dswd.gov.ph

https://pablo.crowdmap.com/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/incanus/8092012070/in/pool-2118705@N23

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-09-13/