Open Green Map - a geospatial tool for sustainable living
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Transcript: English(auto-generated)
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Hello, it's about time for It's about time for our next presenter which Just by accident. I'm both moderator and presenter. My name is chip Rian Samuel. I'm representing
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Green map association in Romania, and we also represent the green map global movement and the organization New York and we have One Global movement towards mapping sustainable development resources for
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a better way of life and We are mainly not concentrating of mapping resources for tourists, but for the local communities and
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The power of this global movement The variety of people that work the variety of organization types from individuals to organizations more organizations nonprofit organizations up to government and another kind of large institutes
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What we have in common is a goal of Let's say thinking globally, but map locally resources In a certain way and we focus on three main themes and One of them is sustainable living
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With resources to green economy mobility and then technology and design hazards and challenges and then we have cultural theme with the resources Related to cultural character, and then we have the third which includes
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Resources Regarding nature and outdoor activities in nature, and we have over 120 icons that we map and All of them from a few years ago
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they are all open and they can be used on any projects in any way you like and we had Big challenges how to handle the amount of projects which goes over 1,000 projects a global level with
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As many teams as projects and then thousands or tens of thousands of people that got involved globally in the last 24 years and the project started somewhere in New York during the World UN conference Somewhere in 1992 or so regarding the sustainable sustainable development
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We have developed inside the movement a larger variety of tools and resources useful for mapping Sustainable living resources starting from let's say, you know the classical printed maps which went on for quite some time
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But now It seems that every one of us wants to move online both online and offline but in using mobile applications and that is a big challenge, especially when you have so many people using the same platform at the same time and
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the same understanding and of course we came up with a lot of its products or resources like brochures and printed maps and atlases or global atlases of green maps over the world and a large amount of people got involved and this is just let's say the core people
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Steering the global movement and We kind of attached this global movement any type of project that we could use including European projects like
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The Grudvig initiative, I think you may have heard of it some education project financed in the EU and We partnered with different Organizations around Europe and As you can see that we we bring
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green sites on the same map Using hundreds of projects worldwide and we need to manage them in a way that we all figure out what they mean Not depending on the language that we speak and the words that we write in the description
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forums So we've been using a platform for over 10 years based on Drupal. I think many of you have heard of it and Realized we can't really keep up the pace With the platform and it's so much Resources to just to keep it up to date and
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Quite a team to develop Functions or features that we need for such a large project so At some point like five years ago. We started looking at different resources of moving The thousands or the hundreds of thousands of points that we have gathered so far
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Into different platforms and we realized and we took one by one We took the Carto TB now Carto and then we had the story maps now. I think it's ArcGIS story maps or ArcGIS online environment and then we had the Google My Maps, Google Earth and different other smaller projects like map of tomorrow somewhere in Germany and
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They were they all had let's say Up-and-downs and we realized none of them is our answer to the problem, so We went on and we said, okay, let's start using some open source resources We find a brilliant mind to put it all together and bring
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Hundreds or as many projects as you like you attach them to a team and the team Can have roles and as many users as you like But all resources go in the same platform so you can see the global movement towards sustainability
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and we Put up this application that works on mobile right now. It's under the it's under test and Then we had the screenshot over New York And of course we decided to take no more fees under the green map system You can use our green map icons in different ways
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With all kinds of open licenses, but we have in common as within global. We are so many different in culture and ways of looking at the sustainable way of living so I
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Would like to walk you through a demo about the What let me check the time and How may I have five minutes? No, maybe less. I have two minutes less. Okay. Oh
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This is nice. How do I Is what we do we have like some 40,000 resources right now on the map They need to be clustered somehow so you can Easily display all of them. I Can quickly go at the local zoom level so we are here and
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I put up two resources for instance And we have let's check out this On the resources you found here, this is a museum that I put up last night while being at
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This gala dinner that we had last night and I'm not sure that you all Figured out that we have a museum inside that great huge building And it's a museum about the folk costumes in Romania so I tried to put that on the map because it's one of the interests in green mapping and
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We put a couple of pictures. This is one done by Mamie last night It goes with a map and then we have also a description and we are touched with different icons Like this is a living Spot and then this is a cultural site or art sport It's senior friendly and it's also government office. And of course we had it has a public restroom
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But anyway, we can manage We have one minute to go and as I said we can Manage for so many people in the project We can manage lots of maps. There are eight over eight hundred maps in here
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We have map profiles and then we can manage The sites and there are hundreds of sorry tens of thousands of sites With pictures and title and descriptions and as many attributes as we like and then we have teams different teams I'm an admin to this so I can see a lot of the data, but usually
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If one opens a map or maybe ten in they can see only their maps and we have different icon sets We can put customers from green map icons to sustainable development the SDG's icons some other custom Icons, so I'm down with my presentation. So I'm ready to take questions
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From you All right. I'm not sure Do I have longer or I think I have ten more minutes
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Why why was I on the rush so I can show you more of the application? I mixed up with time Someone keep an eye on the watch for me on the clock, right? The resolution is pretty high here. So let me show you how we can contribute a new site. Let's say I'm
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Let me go right on the main map view and let's say let me put this Okay, let's see if there is any GPS on here, but maybe it's not Let me go on the zoom. So I'm located somewhere here and
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I want to contribute with the place. So let's think together of something that describes the place with you. We are in so I'm gonna go on the contribute and add a new site and I can zoom in see where I am
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So So this is our hotel maybe I'm not sure and this is a park, okay, let's put this part for instance There is a park here just nearby across the university and say okay I want to put in in and as you can see that on most of the maps if you've seen
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If you look at the green spaces on a general map, well, what do you usually see on that kind of map? It's just let's say a green polygon The name of the green space a park or garden or something like that, but apart from that do you see any other symbols? So the features or the functions of that green space I can tell you at least in Romania
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And I think you saw on this one. You say a green polygon and the name it says a square or something It doesn't say what you can do in the space. You can think of so many things to do, but it doesn't say it and I'll take it. I'll say okay. This is a park And okay, but actually it's not a park. It's just a square and I put square
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parking remaining it means it has at least one Hector just to call it a park and I can confirm it and then I have to put on which Project or map do you want to put it and there is one that I have already opened. It's called green map of Bucharest
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And I have a description and I can type something again and confirm it This works on mobile even better than on desktop, so I can add some pictures of the site, of course I don't have any pictures right now the place but I can continue with what I am interested mostly It's the selecting one of the icons that describes the place and I say from cultural character
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I just choose a child friendly site because it's friendly for kids that you can take them there And then in a safe space they can play with the I don't know what they like in the place But it's also senior friendly because it's it has a shade
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So seniors can go in the shade and talk and play well talk with other seniors or younger people But it's also going under nature. I Can also select a different icon regarding outdoor activities and I'll say okay This is a public space or square and you can play with let's say
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with skateboard or this is a recreation area because it has trees and People around them so I collected all the features of that place And they asked me if I want to add any attributes to the place some
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We have the choice of adding value to the place not just some options For a child friendly site I just say okay, this is child friendly But we can add any custom attributes that we like and I just click on submit and then it's done It's already online. So people see this as a place where they can take the kids and
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Play around the place so we can do the same for just imagine. This is a platform for Now I can go the clock So now I do have how long five minutes Something like that Just imagine this is a platform or you can find the nearest bike repair shop
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Because you have a bike that's broken then I need to find a quick way wall close by repair shop But you can also find places for let's say Where do I take my kids to play around but in a safe place and I we've got icons just for that
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How Where do I let's say I'm a young family I have two small kids one for kindergarten, but in one for school, and I want to move to a new neighborhood How can I what tool do I find so can I take a decision where to just move my family? Usually people buy the home first or rent the home first and then they look around what they have nearby
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But that's the wrong way of doing it We need we have green map Helping that kind of task where you say, okay, I have this kindergarten. I have this is the school. This is the playground This is the farmers market. This is a repair shop or some different different other resources that I need
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Let's say for cultural character. I have a theater nearby a cinema or Large green space and I say, okay, these are all the resources Just gathered in this area. Okay, I should be looking for a place to stay in that area and that gives value and
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It gives a sustainable way of living I just not gonna move in a cheap place if all my important resources are far away because because that drives me to Take decisions like I need to buy a car so I can get from point A to point B And this is really hard to do that in so many quick cases
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We also have resources for green economy we want to take the pulse The local businesses, how do they develop do we even have local businesses around us? Because so much of what we have around has become so imported from different
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places We have also resources for naturalists For instance, I have a young family as well. I'm going back to the same case, but I'm also a biologist I want I want to stay in the place where I have green spaces, but not the one that has just turf I want to see something with natural vegetation and then where I can see an insect watching site
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Bird watching site. I can find amphibians. I can find Let's say birds Migratory birds and in Bucharest we have these large rivers that cross by Bucharest and having a place nearby you can see things that otherwise you should take a trip just to see those
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So let's say pelicans storks or other Stuff like that and in Bucharest, we have also a natural park which is one of the fewest in Europe. We have a park just Near your quarters a natural park a big one actually
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Let me think of another It's a resource it that is useful If I'm going here in Manage icons I can show you some of them. Let's look at view icons and we have so many here. Oh
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Here this is eco Agricultural or permaculture. This is a fair trade icon healthy dining repair shops Wow, we have social services for instance We are in a community and then you need let's say you have families or individuals that need
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Social help like where do I get a free medicine? Where do I get free medical care? Where do I get and there are plenty of people that are not? Insured so they need help Especially in Bucharest are so many let's say Social places the places they can get free food, especially near churches
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Not all not all people know about that. So we put those On the on the map as well or eco-tourism resources, how where do you rent things? local food recycling Etc. And this is just one of them. Let me go to nature and We have icons like that like wetlands drinking water source waterfront park
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or geological features landscaping eco design Shaded Boulevard, just imagine that how important is a shaded Boulevard for seniors or even for in cities, we have this heat island heat islands and
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shaded boulevards they just give you a way of Exiting your home during this sweltering hot and then you just go on a shaded boulevard Which sometimes it has benches and seniors can stay around or they can play with kids or
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kids play with bikes or some other types of activities and for Nature, let me see a culture in society this somehow overlaps with the the interests of tourists, but I can tell you for certain especially in Bucharest I can
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Interview people on in the streets and they won't point me they won't know whole Historical monuments in the city or they won't know even hidden sites They well we know about the largest museums, but you'll never know for instance that we have about 30 or 40 museums
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We have at least 25 theaters some most of the people say okay We have a couple and they will name three or four of them, but not all of them We have on the map all kindergartens on all education resources that we need private and public and
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We have eco club organizations food bank social services and all kind of volunteer sites So I'm available to take your questions now Data microphone of the road
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Hello Do you have an API or? for example Is it possible to use the open green map as a base map on other?
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We are working on it, and I will have my colleague Bogdan just in front of you that will tell you even in a more exact way how we plan to do that and of course we were looking on ways of serving not even the API, but even the
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Let's say the green sides lines polygons whatever we gather Some kind of open license We're still thinking of it because here we involved hundreds of people and there are so many views in each of them But we plan to open it to everyone. I use it in any way they fit and of course
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Easily serving it as an API was a base map somewhere. We actually have at least in our Application we have ways of adding base maps Custom base maps for our maps as well of course we chose the open street map because it's the easiest to get
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But we're looking ways of bringing anything even custom base maps one that you did in your office or some organic local Organization so when you work in an area you'll always have an accurate base map of all you need it may be Aerial imagery, but also some topographical maps etc
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They Have more questions for me. I can't think of one question that you would ask me is it free yes It's free to use open green map Is it useful Well, I think it is I've been working on it for almost 20 years
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And I'm still on it because I I find that all these resources are useful in our daily life And there is no way there is no other way of finding these kind of resources without digging alone for them There is no even not even a governmental office that will tell you where all
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educational Organizations are placed around the city Not mentioning the private ones that's even maybe taboo all right. We have a free time now then