{"id":1012,"date":"2010-01-20T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/16\/1012\/"},"modified":"2010-08-09T11:13:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:13:32","slug":"some-notes-on-map-kibera-mapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/20\/1012\/","title":{"rendered":"Some notes on Map Kibera mapping &#8211; Mikel Maron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It occurs to me that I&#8217;ve hardly mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> on this blog, despite that it&#8217;s often an obsession of mine, as people who&#8217;ve met me in person would quickly confirm. As the Wikipedia of maps (no other explanation works nearly as well), it is open, easy to contribute to, and I believe, will eventually be the source used for most general mapping applications. Even today it gets quite a bit of use, and growing.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, Mikel Maron posts on the Map Kibera blog (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mapkibera.org\/blog\/?p=93\">Some notes on Map Kibera mapping<\/a>) about some of the amazing work he organized mapping Kibera, Nairobi, one of the largest slums in the world. It&#8217;s interesting how a project that began as a counter to the high-priced Ordinance Survey maps in London has become (among many other things), among the best in maps of the developing world, and and an important resource in <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.openstreetmap.org\/wiki\/WikiProject_Haiti\">humanitarian efforts such as Haiti<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I myself have contributed to the project wherever I am living (or have lived), with lots of contributions around Bellevue, WA, a bit in several places in Toronto, and last week a ton of very detailed and localized mapping in a small section of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurs to me that I&#8217;ve hardly mentioned OpenStreetMap on this blog, despite that it&#8217;s often an obsession of mine, as people who&#8217;ve met me in person would quickly confirm. As the Wikipedia of maps (no other explanation works nearly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/20\/1012\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[666,664,665,667,267,585],"class_list":["post-1012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-haiti","tag-kibera","tag-mapkibera","tag-mapping","tag-mikelmaron","tag-openstreetmap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faganm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}