State of France

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Tokyo, SOTM 2012

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Emilie Laffray - elaffray@openstreetmap.fr - osm.org/user/melaskia

Summary

• State of French OSM community
• OpenStreetMap France : born on Oct 2011
• Increased media coverage
• Lots of new contributors

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• State of France data
• Major Open Data policies implemented
• Compatible licence chosen in France

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• Work in progress
• New tools are being developed

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

OpenStreetMap France

• Created on October 2011 by 50+ active members of the French community

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• Registered as non-profit organization (loi de 1901)

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• 11 elected board members

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

Past contacts leveraged...

• Major organizations
• French senate,
• Fondation de France,
• UNESCO,
• World Bank,
• European Council,
• French administrations, public services...
• Major companies
• RATP (Paris Metro/bus),
• SNCF (french railways),
• Fondation d'entreprise Free

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

News resources

• 60k€ donation from Fondation de France
• Money partially used on an ongoing mission in Senegal (May 2012, HOT mission)

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• 24k€+ donation from Fondation d'entreprise free (3 Dell R610 servers 8k€ value for each + hosting)

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• Donated IBM Bladeserver by "Ateliers sans Frontières" (14 x LS21 blades total 56 opteron cores + 112GB RAM)

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

Media Coverage

• TV
• Arte: "Le Dessous des Cartes" / "Mit Offenen Karten", broadcasted in June and August 2012
• Canal+/iTélé (focused on OSM mapping party)
• France 3 (related to SNCF opendata)
• France 24 (related to Myo GPS)
• Press: articles in several professional and mainstream magazines

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

Community is growing!

• New contributors
• Many new contributors thanks to media coverage
• Test to contact all of them during may/june by private OSM mail -> 10% answer

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• Around 200-250 active contributors per day
• Activity ranking of the community moved from 5th to 2nd on http://osmstats.altogetherlost.com/

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• Monthly meetings in Paris and Marseille

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

Opendata accelerates

• Data.gouv.fr : official opendata portal
• opened in december 2011
• very few interesting datasets
• nothing to import "as is"
• More major cities are opening their data
• Nantes: all roads / addresses
• Montpellier: joint effort with mapping parties related to wheelchair accessibility
• Regular meetings with RATP (Paris metro/bus) and SNCF, several regions (PACA, Rhone-Alpes, Aquitaine,...)

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

New tools developed

• Opendata integration tools: manual "import"
• Village/towns admin_center (from IGN)
• Post_office (from La Poste)
• Schools (from Ministry of Education)
• Osmose enhancements
• Many new new analysis (geometric check on railway, addresses check, ...)
• extended to additional countries (Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Madagascar)
• Xapiviewer: visualisation of XAPI results
• Api.openstreetmap.fr: an API proxy/cache
• Live.openstreetmap.fr

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

Infrastructure

• 10+ servers hosted in 5 locations
• Fondation free : 2 x R610
• Ecole Normale Supérieure : 4 x HP-DL360G4
• Pôle Aquinetics: 2 Acer servers
• Nantes university : 2 x HP-DL360G4

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• To be installed:
• Fondation Free: 1 x R610
• Grenoble university : 2 x HP-DL360G4
• Pôle Aquinetics: 1 IBM bladeserver (14 x LS21)

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Stats: munin.openstreetmap.fr

State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

State of France: the data side

• 1.250 millions of roads/paths
• +25% since January despite licence redaction
• 35.000 km added monthly
• Building manual uploads brings motivation, helps to detect missing roads

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• 83% coverage of 36000+ town/village admin. boundaries (cadastre quality level)

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State of France

Tokyo, SOTM 2012

Emilie Laffray (melaskia)

State of France

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Thank you for listening!