GEMMA: Making maps even easier

Oliver O’Brien, Steven James Gray, Andy Hudson-Smith, University College London (UCL)

Details about the talk:
GEMMA – the Geospatial Engine for Mass Mapping Applications - is a new UK (JISC) funded project at UCL’s CASA (Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis) which aims to open up the power of custom maps to everyone, by making it as simple as possible to create a map. One of the applications will be harnessing free and open data sources to create simple maps. This paper presents a application of GEMMA that takes data from OpenStreetMap and other sources, and allows anyone to select certain features and styles, centre the map on a place of interest, and produce a PDF or image for embedding on a website. The website is built from the ground up with a carefully selected subset of possible features, to make the experience as straightforward as possible, as it is aimed primarily at people who are unfamiliar with creating and using maps. The functionality will be launched at State of the Map EU, where we will also present an early glimpse of GEMMA’s capabilities and future plans. IF we have time, we will also talk about some other projects that team members at UCL CASA have worked on, in the context of the OpenStreetMap universe.

Details about the speakers:
Oliver O’Brien and Steven James Gray are researchers at the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis which is lead by Andy Hudson-Smith. Oliver specialises in mapping, geovisualisation and website design, while Steven focuses on usability, mobile development and data crowdsourcing. Both are long-time OpenStreetMap contributors.

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