Comments on: Ups and Downs Mapping the West Bank

By: Skippern

Skippern — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:10:57 +0000

A good set of map data is of high importance for the redeveloping of war areas. Palestine have been battered again and again for so long that I doubt there is any good official survey data available (except for military maps parhaps, which might be graded material), so equipping young palestinians with GPS’s and sending them out to survey their own neighbourhoods sounds like a smashing good idea.

Whenever I get myself a new GPS, I gladly donates my Garmin eTrax to any palestinian willing to survey for OSM

By: mikel

mikel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 07:08:38 +0000

Dan, that sounds like an excellent idea, let’s figure it out.

By: Harry Wood

Harry Wood — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:05:16 +0000

Awesome promoting work Mikel. I grant you the OSM lolcat of awesomeness!

By: Dan Brickley

Dan Brickley — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:26:42 +0000

Nice work! I’m very interested to hear what comes of it.

Related thought – I have somewhere a huge book of old aerial photography (I think the British RAF took survey photos before WW2). Would it be worth approaching the people behind that book to get such old imagery up in some form of map server, so it can be overlaid with ‘what happened next’. For example, the book documents some villages which no longer exist….

By: Schuyler

Schuyler — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:59:12 +0000

Apparently Banksy spent some time here.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:40:15 +0000

Nice on Mikel – good luck with the project

By: Kiran Jonnalagadda

Kiran Jonnalagadda — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:31:59 +0000

Is that Rabble's logo on the wall there? Totally surreal seeing it turn up in the middle of West Bank.