Gori Mapping Party

Gori Community Organizer Team

Meeting Volunteers at the Gori Mapping Party

On Saturday we held the first mapping party in Gori, effectively launching our project to map the Shida Kartli region of Georgia. Our fabulous community organizer team trained local volunteers in GPS mapping and teams roved around the grid-like streets of Gori, collecting street information and points of interest. At the end of the day mappers uploaded their data to our server, and Gori's really started to grow!


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Training Launched in Gori

JumpStart’s public domain mapping project in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia began on Monday. During a week of training, community organizers will explore various topics, including community-based Wiki development, GPS mapping, volunteer organization and planning. During the course of the training organizers will make plans to implement the two-month public domain project. The week will be capped by a Gori mapping party on Saturday, where volunteers will get a first taste of the project and with luck, Gori will be mapped! Work in Shida Kartli will be conducted on JumpStart’s public domain server, and as regions are completed they will be imported into OpenStreetMap.

During the course of the project, organizers will also offer trainings and promote community mapping beyond Shida Kartli. As the regional map data improves, we’ll also explore practical applications of the data in the Caucasus and promote trainings on the side of technical development and use of open data.

OSM Mapping Party

On Saturday we organized the first OpenStreetMap mapping party in Tbilisi. Twenty-four people participated, and for most it was an initial look at OSM. Mappers went out in groups and explored some of the nooks and crannies of Tbilisi's winding streets and steep staircases, and we all gathered at the pub at the end of the day to learn a bit more about OSM and add our data to the database. Luckily several of Tbilisi’s experienced mappers were present to show everybody the ropes and get the new folks involved. A group of students from the American Academy of Tbilisi were in attendance, and are planning to start a mapping club at their school. As community mapping expands in Georgia, this will be a fantastic model on which to base other clubs around the country!

Tbilisi Mapping Party

Of course building up a community of interested participants is integral to open mapping projects, hence we're organizing Tbilisi's first OSM mapping party this Saturday. We look forward to getting new mappers involved!

CaucasusMap

CaucasusMap is about developing open maps throughout the region, building an active mapping community, providing technology training, and making active use of the data. JumpStart will be launching a pilot program in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia (around Gori) to create public domain map data over the coming months. This time around, we're training community organizers, who will train and work with local volunteers to map the region. Alongside this we'll offer trainings to other groups in Georgia and encourage an active OpenStreetMap community.

Gaza Tourist Map

The eWork guys at UCAS designed the first tourist map for Gaza using our data!

Putting the Data to Use

We're currently undergoing the process of making our data available with OpenStreetMap and other partner organizations. But since the information is free for anyone and everyone, we look forward to seeing some valuable and creative applications!

Download - last updated July 31, 2009

• Shapefile
• KMZ (Google Earth)

To view the kmz file, you need to install Google Earth, which you can download here. Open the file and our road and point of interest data will be overlaid on Google Earth imagery. Click any item to see it's attributes.

If you're using the data, we'd love to hear about it. Send an email to maps@jsintl.org and let us know what you're doing!


We're continuing to improve the data over time, so check back for updated versions. And we're always looking to make more data available to the public, so if you own any geodata in Palestine that you'd be willing to release for others, please let us know!