Beirut Mapping Party Presentation

Beirut Mapping Party

osm-lb.org

Collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world.

“The Wikipedia of geographical information”

Why map the world?

• Quality map data is not free for personal or commercial usage or modification.

• Getting the data is complicated.

• Map data is incomplete.

• Maps have errors that we can fix.

• Several areas of the world are not properly mapped (Lebanon villages).

• It’s fun!

Mailing lists activity, number of posts per month. By Matt Amos

How it works?

First, collect data

• GPS track points

• Observations

• Satellite imagery

• Existing data sets

• Own maps

How it works?

Second, create and edit information

• Describe meaningful geographical data: Human knowledge

• Make it available to the world in an open format

Parking

Planet OSM

How it works?

Third, use the data

• Generate bitmap maps (images) for web or print.

• Vector map for navigation services and routing.

• Other applications?

Soest, Germany

Reinhard-Niether-Krankenhaus in Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Geometryof the map

POIamenity: restaurantcuisine: lebanesename:en: Zaatar W Zeit

Streethighway: residentialis_in: Lebanon, Beirutname:en: Bliss Street

Buildingbuilding: yeslanduse: commercialshop: mallname:en: ABC

http://osm-lb.org/tags

State of Lebanon

• First active contributor in 2007

• Beirut featured as a Best of OSM city

• Central area and main roads nearing road completion

• Suburbs not well mapped

• Low or very low coverage in other areas

Beirut

Jounieh

Saida

Zahleh ?

Today’s objectives

• Sectors:– Ras Beirut: Hamra, Snoubra

– Dar Mreissé: AUB

• Complete missing road networks: existence, direction, naming, pedestrian areas.

• Add POIs (Points Of Interests) in the area, particularly: restaurant, bank, pharmacy, parking, shop.

• Set buildings, green spaces.

Ex. Café

amenity: cafecuisine: coffee_shopname: name:ar: name:en: t-marboutaname:fr: t-marbouta

http://osm-lb.org/tags

Ex. Street

highway: residentialname:name:ar:name:en: Boutros Dagher Streetname:fr: Rue Boutros Dagher_ref: 52oneway: yes

http://osm-lb.org/tags

Ex. Green space

http://osm-lb.org/tags

landuse:village_green

GPS Track Points

• Hit the streets:

– Record track points

– Record POIs positions

• Upload to OpenStreetMap

• Edit with Potlatch

Walking Papers

• Paper created on http://walking-papers.org

• Hit the street and add annotations on paper

• Scan and upload paper

• Edit with Potlatch

Suggested method

• Group of 2-3 people

• GPS group:

– Road existence, accuracy, direction

– Buildings, green spaces

• Walking papers group:

– Road naming

– POIs

Garmin devices

• Track logging and POIs:

– Nüvi 200 or 205 (Track hack).

– eTrek Summit HC.

– Geko 201 or 301: turn on TracBack feature.

• Only POIs:

– Nüvi 360 (Save to Favorites)

• Copy GPX track to computer.

http://osm-lb.org/get/garmin

TomTom devices

• Autonomous TomTomdevice: One, Go, Rider.

• Download and install TTTracklog. Runs in background.

• Copy GPX track to computer.

http://osm-lb.org/get/tomtom

iPhone devices

• Compatible with 3G or 3GS

• Download a free tracker from the AppStore:

– Trails Lite

– Easy Trails GPS Lite

• Send track (GPX format) to email.

http://osm-lb.org/get/iphone

Nokia devices

• Compatible with GPS-enabled phones (N Series, E Series, XpressMusic…)

• Download Nokia Sports Tracker

• Export track to GPX and copy file from device to computer

http://osm-lb.org/get/nokia

Nokia N96, N95-3 NAM, N95 8GB, N95, N93i, N93, N92, N91 8GB, N91, N86, N85, N82, N81 8GB, N81, N80, N79, N78, N77, N76, N75, N73, N71

Nokia E90 Communicator, E75 US+LTA variant, E75, E71 China, E71, E70, E66 China, E66, E65, E63, E62, E61i, E61, E60, E55, E51 without camera, E51, E50

Nokia 6720 classic, 6710 Navigator, 6650, 6290, 6220 classic China, 6220 classic, 6210 Navigator, 6124 classic, 6121 classic, 6120 classic, 6110 Navigator, 5730 XpressMusic, 5700 XpressMusic, 5630 XpressMusic, 5500 Sport, 5320 XpressMusic, 3250

Other devices

For mobile devices, seehttp://osm-lb.org/get/mobile

Everything else, try a search onhttp://wiki.osm.org