Presentation about OSM for Humanitarian use at Plan International Mapping Workshop, Woking, Nov. 2012.
Getting started with OSM: http://learnosm.org
About HOT: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/
Current HOT projects: http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects
4. History
* Founded in the United Kingdom in 2004 by
Steve Coast
* Ordnance Survey Data was Expensive to
Use
* July 2005 the First Mapping Party Takes
Place
* All volunteers
5. OpenStreetMap Statistics
Over 900,000 Registered Users from All
Over the World
10,000s Edit Regularly
17. What is the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team?
An organization working to promote
the use of open data and
volunteered geographic information
towards humanitarian response,
disaster preparedness, and
economic development.
24. Mobile GPS
Positives Negatives
● Standalone GPS
– Screen show track and OSM
● Datalogger
– Battery lasts long time.
● Bluetooth datalogger
– Can work with smartphone
● Smartphone
– Editable screen
– POI adding
29. HOT OSM
Humanitarian Field Guide to survey
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?
id=1gmgoMKwPstJdB_eyHEWhfmDQRGxq-
wADfjFBAAyX484
30. HOT OSM
JOSM (Java-based OSM editor)
basic editing field guide
https://docs.google.com/document/edit?
id=1EkeCp7h8yV6uTJuRMhWHcSMIQPTWIK
IdXe0Bek6Agy8
31. Getting OSM Data for GIS
● Shapefile download
● Database import / export
● Plugins
– Quantum GIS
– ArcGIS
● Garmin GPS export
● Misc exports
57. Change in how maps were used in humanitarian situations
For the first time ever we now have a set of conditions where individuals from the
comfort and safety of their own home can literally help other people save lives in a
disaster zone by contributing to OSM & Ushahidi
Schuyler Erle
UN “Would have taken tens of thousands of pounds and years to do. OSM took 3 weeks.”
63.
Satellite and aerial imagery was
made available.
Volunteers (>700) marshalled that
imagery and made it usable.
Volunteers traced the imagery into
OSM.
Volunteers prepared extracts of OSM
for reuse.
65. Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team
“wish you could see their faces 'light up' when I take their GPS unit and
tell them that I'm going to give them street level detail maps.
Mapaction - training and loading up. Most SAR are firefighters.
68. NEED to map
Distributing Food & Water “
any spontaneous camps
appearing in the imagery”
Mapping requirement mentioned by United Nations
Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(UNOCHA) 69 B
earthquake:damage: spontaneous_camp
tourism: camp_site
refugee: yes
There's 3 main stages with crisis mapping, first is data collection, second is applying the data to early days disaster response And the last is reconstruction and ongoing capacity building. Worth noting that the crisis in haiti is still ongoing.
The first was characteriesd by mass collaboration to create and collect data So, what happened. A refresher
Earlier in the Year, a very large earthquake shook the ground in haiti, near port au prince. The country was and remain quite deprived with awful conditions. Lots of people lost their lives, and many were trapped.
OSM looked like this on the day of the earthquake. And this was mainly responsibly by myself importing donated data from the CNGIS – the mapping office of Haitian government – following their previous disaster of severe flooding a year or two previously. That office, and most of the senior staff perished in the earthquake
3 days later, and a lot of detail was added. The activity was tremendous
Closer in
By day 4, displacement camps were being added, as better up to date imagery became available
And by 2 weeks after the earthquake good detailed maps were created
There was a need for shapefile extracts, and also garmin gps images, to put the maps on gps units. These files were updated every 5 minutes!
It really was unique – the first time that people were able to reach out, remotely, from their armchairs even, and make a difference A source from a UN agency said that what would have taken a comercial mapping company tens of thousands if not millions and years to do, OSM too 3 weeks.
Lots of imagery was provided from multiple sources, all for free and a lot of them were, for the first time, allowed for OSM to trace over them
Here's some of the footprints of the imagery given. There were also some UAV oblique imagery. There was the need to tile that imagery up – so it can be traced, used as backdrops, for agencies to analyse.
The haiti crisis map, served by telascience, and mainly set up by chris schmidt sprang to life and was the primary place to go for tiles and imagery.
Myself, with my client at the New York Public Libray deployed an instance of my public domain map warper application – to rectify and serve the Library's collection of maps for the region – some of the only good detail maps available We also rectified the GeoEye imagery, which was misregistered.
So day 1 again
And a month later
In summary for the collection part
The data had to be used
Immediately it was used on GPS devices – the extracts were produced and were loaded up onto the devices. For the first time, responders had good level street maps to guide them. Mapaction – the UK based mapping organisation made good use of this service. The fairfax county urban search and rescue team wrote and expressed their thanks.
Mappers adapted quickly to tag earthquake damage of buildings for example
In order to help damage assessment efforts
The UNOCHA expressed an urgent need to map the spontanous camps that sprang up, and the mappers were able to instantly add the camps that they saw.
And the NGO was able to give food to the camps
Routing was crucial – particularly when roads were blocked. ORS, from university of bonn, produced a special haiti routing application – which enabled people to draw on that map blockages and obstacles, whilst also reading the osm data to see if there were obstacles recorded
The crisis is ongoing – the rainy season will start soon And theres a focus on increasing OSM work
The rains increase the likelhood of floods, disease and landslides
Deployments Theres been 3 deployments by osmers to Haiti - Nicolas, pictured, is currently out there with Kate Chapman In the box are printers, GPS units, laptops. Their mission is
The gis dept, the CNGIS is coming back online, (as it was destroyed) but some of the staff are learing OSM and taking ownership
The guys are doing lots of training with many different actors, and are seeing lots of enthusiasm
