SotM2011 crisis mapping and sinsai.info

Crisis mapping and disaster response
　 Representative director of
OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan
Hiroshi Miura

Who am @miurahr
Linux/OSS evangelist and developer
Founder of “OpenStreetMap Japan” site in March, 2008.
Representative of OSM Foundation Japan
OSM evangelist in Japan

Who am @miurahr

Agenda
It is happened.. start of projects
CrisisMap: help from mappers
Sinsai.info: Japanese Ushahidi
Media outreach and OSM
Future

1. It is happened.. start of projects

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5543305021/in/set-72157626305323978/
11, March, 2011
１４：４６ .18 JST

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5543305021/in/set-72157626305323978/
N38°6'12” E142°51'36” M 9.0 http://osm.org/go/7TTLXV--

TSUNAMI
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dugspr/5541815267/in/set-72157626305323978

Many lives and households are lost.

Infrastructures are also affected.

roads electric power gas water line cell networks city hall everything

Damaged Infrastructures
Even in Tokyo congestions in roads, rails, cell network

but Internet is alive in many area
Twitter, SNS and other media works well

11, March, 2011
18:19 JST
Photo: US. Navy Imaginary, Miyagi311

Start of projects It's time to move. Let's discuss how we are doing... Hiroshi Miura 18:19, 11 th , March @OSMFJ ML

Start of Sinsai.info It is not certain to be useful but I just started Ushahidi site. Shu Higashi 18:27 11 th March in talk-ja@openstreetmap.org

First report in １９：06
http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/reports/view/00014
[Emergency] There are people left behind tunami on a Yamoto town Ground. Please help them! (from twitter)

2. CrisisMap: help from mappers

“ DAICHI/ALOS” by JAXA
Bing aerial by Microsoft
Aerial photos from GSJ (Geographical Survey Institute of Japan)
DigitalGlobe / QuickBird
SPOT5
Telascience: EO-1 03-13, Landsat 03-12, 03-13,
… ..etc...
Satellite and aerial photos

Start of crisis mapping Time (JST) Events 15:21(+30m) Orange (!) alert - http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2011/usc0001xgp/ by Chris on CrisisMappers ML 17:12 (+2h30m)
Shu Higashi shared a situation in Tokyo in ML
18:08 (+3h) Blackadder start mapping around Sendai Airport by Bing （ Way:103630706)

Start of Crisis Mapping Time(JST) Events 18:30 (+3hrs44min) Call for crisis mapper and ushahidi project on talk-ja ML by Shu 18:56 JAXA and RESTEC start to make aerial photo from satellite. 19:31 (+4hrs45min) EdLoach (Start a page) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ 2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami

The Map in March 11

The Map in April 11

Around Sendai Airport

2008 年 2009 年 2010 年 2011 年 Contributors in Japan region map in March > ６５０

Appreciations
many organizations
many companies
many government officials
many mappers
and more...
Appreciation to ALL contributers !!

Thanks
H umanitarian
O penStreetMap
T eam

3. Sinsai.info: Japanese Ushahidi

Used in world wide
Ushahidi deployment capture
Sinsai.info is largest Ushahidi project in the world (in data size and traffic)

Kibera Projects Kibera mappers

How it works How it works Checked by moderators Email Reports Moderation Report from form

example

• Over 12,000 reports • 1,000,000+ PV in first one month • 850,000+ Visits • 650,000+ Unique Visitors > 1,200,000 Tweets >250 info. volunteers >100 developers Major stats

Development volumes Issue type Finished Total issues Note BUG FIX 303 388 CONFIG 17 17 NEW FEATURE 102 140 TOTAL 422 526 as of 19 Aug In March, There are hundreds of issues concurrently resolved everyday.

Improvements
Performance ： world largest traffic/data archived by SQL tune and clustering
Features ： Asian Language search
iPhone, Android and feature phone
Admin UI improvements for huge data handing(millions tweets)
KML plugin improvements

Developers
Registered developers > 100
Active developers 〜 30
Many part of developers are Ruby guy.
Greatest and youngest developer is a Ruby language commiter.

Greatest and youngest.. Sora Patrick Meier

4. Media outreach and OSM

Outreach to mass-media
We outreach many mass-media and more
TV program: NHK; national tv channel
News Papers: Nikkei, Asahi, etc..
IT media: Nikkei, CNET, business channel
TEDx
Academia

5. Future

expansion: OSM and sinsai.info
Community Map
Town promotion mapping
Crisis mapping
earthquake, tsunami, fire, terrorism
electric power problems
Promotion map
Sake winery map

Prepare the NEXT
・Core values of sinsai.info
Open Source Software ethics
OSS developer team
Crowd-sourcing scheme
• Relationship with many NPO/NGO
• We are ready team for NEXT crisis in Japan and global

Thank you!!

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