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the value of
local knowledge
PRESENTED BY:
coleman mccormick
@colemanm
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Everything is local.
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Geography adds context.
financial risk
military ops
trade
history
politics
religion
communications
language
land tenure
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What happens without context?
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An example.
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How do we gather this information?
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leverage local talent.
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openstreetmap :: london, uk.
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founded in 2004...
in 2011:
500,000 users
millions of points added each day
from gps, applications, data imports, digitizing
oslo, norway.
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make it easy to participate.
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citizen reporting.
brazil nigeria
japan
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geonames.
named places & objects
local language
colloquial names
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so where’s the value?
why is local important?
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veracity & completeness.
osm google maps
port-au-prince, haiti.
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importance & relevance.
communities can contribute information
about places or events that are important
to them.
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how people use the landscape.
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language.
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ภาษาไทย
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english
русский язык
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한국어
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history.
"What fossils are to biology, and sediments to
geology, toponyms are to cultural history of
a country because they reflect the various
ethnic, economic, political and other changes
in the past ."
- petar ilievski
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so now we know...
what are the challenges?
inform communities
simplify technologies
make it fun to contribute
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thank you!
help contribute!
join the geoherd...
http://openstreetmap.org
http://ushahidi.com
http://geonames.org
http://locationleverage.com
[email protected]
@colemanm