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: unleashk...@googlegroups.com [mailto:unleashk...@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 <h...@laptop.org 
<mailto:h...@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

 

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