OpenStreetMap: A Disaster Waiting to Happen

OpenStreetMap A Disaster Waiting to Happen Mikel Maron State of the Map [email_address] http://brainoff.com/

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The Grim Meathook Future “ Feeding poor people is useful tech, but it's not very sexy and it won't get you on the cover of Wired. Talk about it too much and you sound like an earnest hippie. So nobody wants to do that.” -Joshua Ellis

Poverty Environmental Destruction War drawn out disaster

http://flickr.com/photos/minkymonkeymoo/681878431/ It's Not Faraway

An Engineering Problem in the Most Extreme Environment

US Route 90 How they get it Wrong

Amateur
http://flickr.com/photos/robinini/161383472/

What It's Like

Disaster == A complete Failure Localised or Widespread Developed or Developing Country Sudden Onset Natural Disaster (flood, fire, quake, hurricane, volcano)‏ or Humanitarian (drought, war, genocide)‏

The Engineering Conditions Unpredicatable Bandwith/Connectivity Sporadic Power Limited Hardware

THE “COMMUNITY”, KINDA

UN NGOs Charties Governments Individuals Donors

Passionate People High Burnout Rate Few Cross-Institutional Links

“ Common Operating Picture” HICs

THE SOLUTION GeoRSS/KML P2P Paper Maps Ham Radio SMS/Twitter Pre-Event Data Store Remote Sensing Rapid Deploy “ Common Operating Picture” Collaborative Map Platform Online/Offline Bandwith Sensitive Sync-able Open Source – Field Hackable

Pre-event Collected Resources Open Data – OSM, VMAP0, Geonames, Stats Imagery – Landsat, Gearth Stuffer

Serve, Slice, and Deploy 5K MacMini Labs on a Stick NGO in a Box

Collaborative Map Platform

Remote Sensing Satellite, UAVs, Planes, Kites

SMS and Ham Radio Twitter/TwitterVision

GeoWeb – GeoRSS/KML Consumption-Production

Printing and Paper

Pre Event

Analysis

Open Picture of Participants

Capacity Building – Education aka Mapping Parties

Post Event

Open the Collected Data for Reconstruction/Development

Continued Connection Internationally

Who Gets It

JRC Tsunami Model http://tsunami.jrc.it/

GDACS http://gdacs.org/

RSOE Alert Map http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/

GLIDE http://glidenumber.net/

Sahana http://www.sahana.lk/

MapAction http://mapaction.org/

ReliefWeb http://reliefweb.int/

PreventionWeb http://preventionweb.net/

Maps 2.0 http://maps2.humaninet.org/

INSTEDD http://google.org/

Google/NASA – Global Connection http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~globalconn/

BrightEarth http://brightearthproject.org/

Jim Grey http://www.helpfindjim.com/

GeoEye Foundation http://www.geoeye.com/

International Charter http://www.disasterscharter.org/

GeoBliki http://www.geobliki.com/

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