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Who's on First: Administrative Boundaries & Localities

Martin Gamache, Art of the Mappable
Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, Mapzen
NACIS 2016

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Transcript

  1. Who's on First: Administrative Boundaries & Localities Martin Gamache, Art

    of the Mappable Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, Mapzen

  2. Who’s On First https://whosonfirst.mapzen.com/

  3. Quattroshapes http://quattroshapes.com/

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  5. GAUL http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/graphover.show? id=12691&fname=GAUL.gif&access=publicUL:

  6. GADM http://www.gadm.org/download

  7. OSM https://mapzen.com/data/borders/

  8. EuroGeographics http://www.eurogeographics.org/products-and-services/euroglobalmap

  9. International Steering Committee for Global Mapping https://www.iscgm.org/gmd/

  10. Revolutionary GIS / Justin Meyers https://revolutionarygis.wordpress.com/

  11. Project Status

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  47. “If  we  take  the  +me  to  closely   examine  open

     data  efforts,  it’s  hard   to  avoid  a  disheartening   conclusion:  most  open  data  isn’t.”     Jer  Thorp   Open  for  Who?  Medium  .com  Oct.  5,  2016   hJps://medium.com/memo-­‐random/open-­‐for-­‐who-­‐ce698a8de79c#.q14rrlo83  

  48. Thanks Additional contributors: Stephen Epps Justin Meyers https://github.com/whosonfirst-data/whosonfirst- data [email protected]

    @themappist