The document discusses open source, open data, and collaborative geospatial tools and projects. It highlights platforms like QGIS, GRASS, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi, and others that enable open mapping and crowdsourced data collection. It addresses criticisms around accuracy and reliability but argues these projects are "good enough" and evolve based on user needs. The document emphasizes that open data and tools allow anyone to engage in mapping and analysis.

1. Maning Sambale
Maptivist
Covert member
Worldwide Campaign to Eliminate Needless North
Arrows
International Crusade Against Useless Scale Bars

2. The New Golden
Age of
"digital"
Cartography
Philippine Geospatial Forum
UP Geography Department
March 11, 2013

3. Open Source
Open Data

4. Open Collaboration
Internet

5. 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

6. For whatever OS
QGIS on Ubuntu Linux; MS Windows; Mac OSX and; Android Tablet.
http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/qgis-is-for-the-93/

7. Loosely coupled but integrated tools

8. Free and Open Source GEO
http://live.osgeo.org

9. Quantum GIS
Desktop GIS
http://live.osgeo.org

10. GRASS GIS
Integrated suite for modelling,
visualization and data management
http://live.osgeo.org

11. Openlayers
Browser mapping library
http://live.osgeo.org

12. Geoserver
Managing web services
http://live.osgeo.org

13. PostGIS
Spatial database
http://live.osgeo.org

14. GNU R
Statistical computing
http://live.osgeo.org

15. GDAL/OGR
Data translation library
http://live.osgeo.org

16. TileMill
Map design studio
http://live.osgeo.org

17. Others
Python
general purpose programing
language
Github
fork, copy, share code

18. Availability of the code
is necessary for
Open 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

19. Open GEO Data

20. OpenStreetMap
The Wikipedia for Maps
Geospatial data for free
so that you can use it
for any creative purpose
you can think of!
http://openstreetmap.org

21. http://vimeo.com/49003594

22. Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

23. Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

24. Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

25. Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

26. Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

27. Citizen Aerial Imagery
Balloon Mapping
http://publiclaboratory.org/home

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

29. Ushahidi
Crowdsourced geolocated events
http://www.ushahidi.com/

30. Common criticisms to open,
distributed, collaborative GEO
projects
Accuracy/Reliability?
Authoritativeness?

31. 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 purpose
suitable for the intended purpose
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_good_enough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_assurance

32. Some examples
GNU/Linux
MP3 format
Gmail
SRTM 90M DEM
Project NOAH website

33. More GEO examples

34. MapQuest
http://mapquest.com/

35. Foursquare
http://foursquare.com

36. Apple's iPhoto

37. WB's Mapping for Results
http://maps.worldbank.com

38. Contingency Planning for
Disaster
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/2013-01-18_openstreetmap_usage_in_jakarta_flood_response

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

40. Disaster Response
(Ondoy)
http://mapaction.org

41. Disaster Response
(Sendong)
http://mapaction.org

42. Disaster Response
(Pablo)
http://mapaction.org

43. DSWD
Pablo Response Monitoring
Photo by Leonard Doyle
http://m.dswd.gov.ph
https://pablo.crowdmap.com/

44. To eat!

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

46. Who is the crowd?

47. Ian Lopez
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ianlopez1115
Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

48. Ian Lopez
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ianlopez1115
Contributors of OpenStreetMap
http://openstreetmap.org

49. Ikiya
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ikiya
http://www.slideshare.net/ikiya_OSM/fukushima-mapping-before-and-after-the-disaster

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

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

52. Michal Migurski
http://mike.teczno.com/
http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/

53. “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

54. “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.html
https://github.com/migurski/Skeletron

55. Mike Bostock
http://bost.ocks.org/mike/
http://d3js.org/

56. "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

57. If everybody can do it, are we still
relevant?
As geospatial professionals, what
do we make out of this situation?

58. Managing signal-to-noise ratio
(SNR)
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-09-13/

59. “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 Monmonier
How to Lie with Maps

60. Ethical issues,
community privacy on
open access data

61. Citizen engagement with open
government data
for governance and transparency

62. Cartographic visualizations
for effective communication

63. The New Golden Age
of "digital"
Cartography
YOU

64. Maning Sambale
emmanuel.sambale@gmail.com
http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/

65. Credits and URLs
The Simpsons Movie http://hot.openstreetmap.org/updates/201
http://www.lolriot.com/2012/10/01/funny- 3-01-
pictures-102-35-images/who-wants-to-be-a- 18_openstreetmap_usage_in_jakarta_flo
millionaire-which-of-these-is-not-a-web- od_response
browser/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_g
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Com ood_enough
ponents/Photo/_new/tdy-130115-concert- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality_assur
phones.photoblog600.jpg
ance
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html
http://www.mapaction.org
http://live.osgeo.org
http://m.dswd.gov.ph
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v482/
n7386/full/nature10836.html https://pablo.crowdmap.com/
http://www.openstreetmap.org/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/incanus/809
2012070/in/pool-2118705@N23
http://publiclaboratory.org/home
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-09-
http://www.ushahidi.com/
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