[IAEP] [XSCE] RE: [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap Offline - DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC

[Anish Mangal]

Hi Jérôme,

I incorporated one of your comments; as for the other I think Timm, Nick
would be better suited for the discussion (python backend v/s frontend js).
:-)

Best,
Anish

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <gagnonje at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Anish
>
> Great document. I've added 2 comments to the document, feel free to
> incorporate into the document if that makes sense.
>
> Also added a TODO for myself to do more research about the various search
> solutions.
> I've used Nominatim in the past (on the client side, not the server
> infrastructure) and it was overall very good, but I'll want to know more
> about the other ones.
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Anish for an excellent start at getting this down on paper (so to
>> speak).  I think this covers things pretty well and gives us the necessary
>> hooks on which to hang the details as we begin fleshing out solutions to
>> the requirements you documented.
>>
>>
>>
>> Under issues I added one point about rendering non-Roman character sets.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* unleashkids at googlegroups.com [mailto:unleashkids at googlegroups.com]
>> *On Behalf Of *Anish Mangal
>> *Sent:* Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:15 PM
>> *To:* Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT
>> laptop.org
>> *Cc:* Unleash Kids!; server-devel; xsce-devel; iaep; Internet In a Box
>> Working Group; Jaakko Helleranta
>> *Subject:* [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap Offline -
>> DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC
>>
>>
>>
>> Okay, so I tried to encapsulate whatever we discussed into a design
>> document, which can hopefully serve as a base for reaching out to the OSM
>> community and to better organize our own thoughts.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWsN-cPH3lvMuXS-f0Tk8IWVh-3X808WoIt0OJ-QNt8/edit#
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWsN-cPH3lvMuXS-f0Tk8IWVh-3X808WoIt0OJ-QNt8/edit>
>>
>> Please feel free to edit the information there as I may have missed some
>> points, or interpreted them differently than as intended.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Anish
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:
>>
>> Who's attending http://stateofthemap.us at the UN in NYC this weekend?
>>
>> Who's most serious about bringing OpenStreetMap's opportunities and rapid
>> progress into the hands of the world's offline poor -- kids and all,
>> American and Swahili?  Wanna Take This Map Outside, offline and off the
>> grid, where we all belong/began?
>>
>> http://Internet-in-a-Box.org and similar efforts have made a gigantic
>> 1st step: in Ghana and Rwanda I could never have imagined better reviews to
>> our 2015 deployments begun there in recent months.  Many are now changing
>> the game increasingly for the Bottom BillionS, among many who've literally
>> never seen a globe before, nevermind a map of their own towns.  Both in
>> OLPC (school) contexts, in libraries, on Nepali hillsides where folks don't
>> have proper homes, and far beyond --- perspectives (literally) are about to
>> change.
>>
>> But modern phones today contain more than enough gigabytes to display ALL
>> OpenStreetMap map detail within most countries, and yet they do not yet,
>> WHY?  Where are the Khan Academies and KA Lites of OSM (OpenStreetMap)
>> bringing new classroom/journalistic rubrics, freeing everyone's "brain
>> software" to explore and document our own communities in our own languages?
>>
>> *Who Will Take The Next Steps?*
>> *What engineering middleware, distribution vectors, community/economic
>> models, and final field packagings will get us all there & beyond?*
>>
>> *Will offline edit-contributions prove impossible, much like with
>> Wikipedia in Peru, when offline kids edit overly stale
>> OpenStreetMap/Wikipedia images a year before/later?*
>>
>>
>>
>> As such the wider OLPC community is hosting a DESIGN Call to bring
>> forward ideas across the OpenStreetMap landscape, fertilizing our immediate
>> work with school server projects like http://schoolserver.org,
>> http://xsce.org, https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e ETC.
>> Ministries of Education in India elsewhere are watching closely, expressly
>> eager to help if we can point the way.  All giving our "2020 Vision"
>> questions very practical and immediate "customers" well before 2020, much
>> like Garmin GPS units fed a wonderful ecosystem of geo-specific
>> "gmapsupp.img" offline map files over the past decade:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download
>>
>> That decade's now done: what IS our framework for the coming decade?
>> Please join us if you have strategic/partnership ideas towards making
>> Offline OSM Designs happen, *Thank You !!*
>>
>>
>>
>> 10AM New York Time / 2PM UTC
>>
>> Thursday, June 11th
>>
>> RSVP with your Skype username, if we are more than 15-20 we'll use an
>> industrial conference call system instead!
>>
>>
>> CONCLUSION: Could OpenStreetMap be the very ultimate in Constructionist
>> Learning Projects, replacing OLPC in coming years, on a quickly
>> shrinking/endangered but still green-in-parts planet?  Regardless, how to
>> build the OLPC Movement's offline/civic learning successes, consciously
>> learning from its community infrastructural mistakes?  Nick Doiron (
>> http://mapmeld.com) and Anish Mangal (
>> https://in.linkedin.com/in/anishmangal) who've spent years thinking
>> about this topic will lead the discussion, agenda is entirely yours!
>> OPTIONAL: submit agenda items in advance right here:
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg
>>
>>
>>
>> *< forward invitation to Twitter/wherever as appropriate >*
>>
>>
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