How Crowdsourcing Changed Disaster Relief Forever

How Crowdsourcing Changed Disaster Relief Forever.

FOSS4G 8 September 2010

(time machine sound)

FOSS4G 2008

best conference

best conference all year

best conference every year

you are awesome

your software is awesome

your software is useless

without data

(meanwhile, back in 2010...)

“Crowdsourcing”

Coase's Penguin

Yochai Benkler

Yochai Ronald Benkler Coase

Yochai Ronald Free Benkler Coase Software

Commons-Based Peer Production

Commons-Based Peer Production ● Non-monetary motivation

Commons-Based Peer Production ● Non-monetary motivation ● Discrete, multi-sized pieces

Commons-Based Peer Production ● Non-monetary motivation ● Discrete, multi-sized pieces ● Low-cost integration

“Crowdsourcing”

12 January 2010 16:53 (GMT-5)

9,000,000 people in Haiti

3,000,000 affected

“there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number.”

Centre National de l'Information Géo-Spatiale (CNIGS)

12 hours later...

TelaScience

HaitiCrisisMap.org

275 editors 500,000 objects edited

600 editors 1,000,000 objects edited

“... the best source of transportation information that we have for Haiti … everybody is using OpenStreetMap.” - UN OCHA aid worker

“We used OpenStreetMap on a daily basis... Usually, it is impossible to get this information.” - UNOSAT technical staff

“I wish you could see [the team's] faces light up when I ... tell them that I'm going to give them street level detail maps.” - Fairfax County, Virginia SAR team leader

“Without a doubt, OpenStreetMap has helped to save lives.” - MapAction coordinator

“Crowdsourcing”

GIS and the Neogeographer Schuyler Erle <sderle@metacarta.com>

GIS and the Neogeographer GIS is ... ● Analytical ● Precise ● Deliberate ● Money is at stake ● Lives are at stake

GIS and the Neogeographer Neogeography isn't much like that at all.

GIS and the Neogeographer Neogeography is... ● “Mashups” ● “Web 2.0” ● “Red Dot Fever” ● Hacks ● Imprecise ● Fast

your software is useless

without data

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

mapkibera.org

“No map of the world is worth a look if the land of Utopia isn't shown there.”

If you have worked on...

MapServer

Mapnik

GeoServer

PostGIS

TileCache

OpenLayers

… then you have helped save lives.

How Crowdsourcing Changed Disaster Relief Forever.

How You Changed Disaster Relief Forever.

Schuyler Erle @schuyler schuyler@simplegeo.com With special thanks to: Tom Buckley Stuart Gill Kate Chapman Erica Hagen Nicolas Chavent Mikel Maron Steve Coast Jesse Robbins Erdem Ergin Christopher Schmidt Galen Evans Robert Soden http://hot.openstreetmap.org/

How Crowdsourcing Changed Disaster Relief Forever

by Schuyler Erle on Sep 14, 2010

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