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Map$vism  reloaded  Open  data  and  maps  for  development  

Chris$an  Kreutz  

Open  data  –  another  hype?  

A  map  is  worth  a  thousand  words  

A  Map  of  the  World  An$-­‐Spanking  League   Jonas  Dagson  

hAp://infographicsnews.blogspot.com/2008/12/save-­‐children-­‐map.html  

It  is  es6mated  as  much  as  80%  of  data  contains  geo-­‐referenced  informa6on.  

www.watradehub.com  

Digital  maps  are  a  great  way  to  digest  data.    

Is  that  useful?  

www.mapnificent.de  

Complexity  

Needs  

Andrew  Turner  (hAp://www.slideshare.net/ajturner/drupal-­‐and-­‐the-­‐geospa$al-­‐web)  

Where does my money go?

Data  +  map  +  mobile  phone  =    a  great  informa6on  service  

We  need  to  offer  an  added  value  with  open  data.    

Services  that  really  help  organiza6ons  and  beneficiaries.  

Photo:  C.  Kreutz  

Local  seismograph  for  your  neighborhood  

OpenStreetMap  (Crea$ve  Commons  CC-­‐by-­‐SA  2.0  Lizenz).  Rendering  ©  2010  Cloudmade    

Worldwide  collabora6on  for  geo  data  

Openstreetmap.org  

Before  the  Earthquake  

Openstreetmap.org  

AXer  the  Earthquake  

www.mapkibera.org  

Map  Kibera  -­‐  OpenStreetMaps  

Mapping  through  crowdsourcing  

7.4.2011   27  h_da DJ | Daten Recherche | Christian Kreutz  

Real-­‐6me  data  and  mapping  

Google  Traffic  Data  

hAp://www.datavisualiza$on.ch/showcases/traffic-­‐on-­‐googlemaps  

hAp://sukey.org/  

Data  mining  for  development  aid  

Making  sense  of  digital  smoke  signals  

Robert  Kirkpatrick  –  Global  Pulse  

Danger  

www.flickr.com/photos/dollar_bin  

www.eightmaps.com  

Solly  Benjamin  Impact  of  the  digi6za6on  of  land  records  in  Bangalore.    

(CC)  hAp://www.flickr.com/photos/mckaysavage  

Thank  you  for  your  aVen6on.    

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