State of State of OpenStreetMap JapanOpenStreetMap Japan

12th 13th July, 2008State of the Map 2008

OpenStreetMap JapanFounder and Leader

Hiroshi Miura

AgendaAgenda● Motivation● Project goal● Challenges● Activities● Recent political situation

MotivationMotivation● As a FLOSS developer and known

evangelist, looking for next challenge in 2007.

● My experiences are● Cyrix/Intel CPU frequency control driver

in Linux, Samba 2.0 unicode/UTF support and so on...

● Help starting-up OSS business on top system integrator in Japan 2003-

Status for japanese – Status for japanese – end of 2007end of 2007

● Quite small quantily of translated document

● Quite few members on Japan area● No mail list for Japanese● No promotion in Japan● Ordinal japanese have language

gap!

Goal on OSM JapanGoal on OSM Japan● Make OSM data good enough for business

in Japan and east asia area.● For this, starting site at Sunday, 9th March

● http://www.openstreetmap.jp● Announcement

● OSM-talk ML, LUGs, and Web news media● Promote OSM in Japan

● Provide map in local color scheme(now planning)● Help mapper who are not familiar English

Promotion on mediaPromotion on media● Nikkei ITPro News, 11 March, 2008

http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20080311/296000/

State of December, 2007State of December, 2007

2007.12 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.714&lon=139.878&zoom=11&layers=B0FT

State of JulyState of July

ChallengeChallenge● Build up “Wikinomics" community in

Japan/Asia region● Openness, sharing data, peering, global

activity● Not familiar for ordinal japanese

● Try geting thousands of people with 'sharing philosophy.'● It is easy to get free web map for

consumer, how to share values?

Cite from JR east web page: http://www.jr-east.co.jp/

Tokyo StationTokyo Station

High dense High dense structuresstructures

● High densed layered structure on town and train terminals

● High dense building makes GPS errors

Tokyo station and Tokyo station and Marunouchi areaMarunouchi area

Origin:Ja.wikipedia.org, copyright 663highland, lisence:GFDLhttp://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/画像 :Tokyo_Marunouchi01s3872.jpg

Political situationPolitical situation● New law start this April for direction

of advanced application for national special data "National Spacial Data Infrastracture” law

● People can use some basic data freely as freedom.

● Rest of Geodata can be used for nothing, but needed to display origin, and even permission for each application in past.

Field activities – Field activities – Mapping weekendMapping weekend

● 24th May in Kamakura● 13 persons joined● Two mapper got in Kamakura cafe

● Next party - 19th July in Kamakura again!

During PartyDuring Party

TaichiOsm project

in Tokyo Univ.

Presenting his project

State of July 2008State of July 2008

Thank you!Thank you!

http://www.openstreetmap.jp/

OSM Japan