Hi OpenStreetMappers,
There will be an event on February 22nd called The Internal Open Data Day, the point of this event is to gather citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments.
In Thailand there is an event registered in Chiang Mai, and I have been asked if I could come and do some projects based on OpenStreetMap data. About 20-30 people are expected to attend, but more might come as the event is open to everyone. There will also be other projects based on other sources of open data. Not all projects will be technical and no technical skill is required to show up.
I am not entirely sure what kind of projects I can do, but I’d love to hear your suggestions and I’d like it even more if you would like to attend or even help out.
A mapping party have been suggested, but I’d like to have some other ideas as well - I’d rather work with the data of OpenStreetMap and show what things can be done with it, that is not possible with closed sources such as Google. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to come up with anything we could possibly accomplish in a day or where Thailand have enough data. One of my impossible ideas have been to present statistics on how much land in Chiang Mai is being converted from farmland to residential - but we haven’t mapped it all yet, and we therefore have no historical data either. We might be able to do this in 5 years though :).
I will post a link to an invitation to Chiang Mai event as soon as one is ready - I’ll also give examples of a few more of my ideas, but right now the restaurant I am sitting in is kicking me out.
Best regards,
Johnny