I got to the OpenStreetMap presentation a bit late so this blog post is a little cruddy, well more cruddy than the previous posts at least.  Here are my notes:

Roads are two way for israeli's but one way for palestinian.  How do you represent that in a database?

About a year ago, there was no map of Palestine.  No decent maps of Gaza as of Jan 2009.

To handle Gaza, had Yahoo sat imagery and could trace major points.  Pointed out to BBC that their map during the Jan 2009 Incursion into Gaza was wrong.  In 7 days, they had maps of Gaza.  Purchased sat imagery at 30m resolution, 5,000 Gbp.

dear friends,

 

we're a small group of people from the UK who are travelling to israel and the palestinian territories overland this summer. we go with the intention to learn about non-violence, ourselves, the world and what individuals can do to effect social change.