Recap the trainings and the discussion on OpenStreetMap and Remote Volunteering during the Progetto V-IOLA's final exercitation in Finale Emilia on 2019-09-19. For further information http://violaproject.eu/ https://eacea.ec.europa.eu/sites/eacea-site/files/compendium_euaid_cb_2017.pdf (at page 17)

1. Wikimedia Italia
OpenStreetMap Italia
DRR and Geographic information
V-IOLA Project
Finale Emilia 2019 Sept.

2. Wikimedia Italia
http://www.wikimedia.it/
Wikimedia Italia is the italian chapter of the
no-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
Free information and culture for humankind

3. www.openstreetmap.org
OpenStreetMap is a worldwide collaborative project
The project that creates
and distributes
free geographic data
for the world

4. Better information
make
better decisions
Decisions sometimes are not easy

5. OpenStreetMap provides maps and data as well

6. Keep it simple stupid
Do you want many volunteers?
Keep the tasks as simple as possible

7. Why OpenStreetMap
Low cost tools
No special skills required

8. Local and remote volunteers
1% on the field can provide the
(sometimes raw) data to the ...
99% from remote
that can help working
on those data

9. Remote volunteers? Yes, please
They don’t interfere in field operations
They don’t feel the pressure
They can help whenever they can
They don’t have any cost

10. Simple tools
What is needed: a printer, a pencil, a
smartphone (or a scanner).
With Fieldpapers http://fieldpapers.org/
anyone can take down notes on
papers and other from remote can
transfer these note on a map.
For Mapillary (photo and video
collector) you need just a smartphone
with a decent camera.

11. A short recap about some Apps
FieldPapers http://fieldpapers.org
Vespucci https://vespucci.io
GeoPaparazzi on Play Google
OSM Contributor on Play Google
OsmAnd https://osmand.net/
Mapillary on Android and iOS store
OpenDataKit https://opendatakit.org/

12. Fieldpapers
Go to the website, create an atlas, go to the field

13. Easy to use, easy to contribute
The average tool is a smartphone with some apps.
This is Geopaparazzi, with input forms customizable

14. Mapillary
Mapillary doesn’t belong to OpenStreetMap project
Everyone can use it. On the Mapillary website ….

15. Mapillary
…. or through an OpenStreetMap editor

16. Mapillary
Without any effort you can collect a lot of data.
You can fix a smartphone on a car’s windshield

17. Be prepared!
Build your data infrastructure before emergencies happen
https://www.missingmaps.org/

18. Get OpenStreetMap data
Free data and maps always available to everyone
http://download.geofabrik.de/
From API etc...

19. Get OpenStreetMap data
https://export.hotosm.org

20. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
https://hotosm.org

21. OpenStreetMap and the emergency
Collaborative tool for remote mapping

22. OpenStreetMap and the emergency
The day after we got updated satellite imagery and in a few hours we mapped
collapsed bridges, blocked roads and the first tent camps.
OpenStreetMap for several weeks was the only map with updated information.

23. United Nation open mapping project
The UN GIS unit has joined the OpenStreetMap community
and contribute to the project
mapping directly on OSM to make maps for U.N. missions

24. Best practises
Keep it open!
Whenever possible:
●
use open formats (e.g.: no Autocad DWG, …)
●
use open software: most of them don’t have license
fee so anybody can install and use
●
use open license (it makes reusable)
●
share data
●
publish data (not the confidentials of course)

25. Best practises
Keep in touch with local communities
Whenever possible:
Keeping a channel open with local communities help.
You should get a single point contact, instead of
manage hundreds contacts.
Activate H.O.T. tasks, they can provide validated data
in short times.

26. Thanks for your kindly attention
The simple rules in Openstreetmap are:
Don’t copy from data or maps not OdbL compatible
Have fun
Alessandro Palmas
United Nations G.I.S. consultant
(former) Project manager OpenStreetMap for Wikimedia Italia
OpenStreetMap mappers since Dec. 2007
@Ale_Zena_IT
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Photos by: Alessandro Palmas, Francesco Giunta (@SotM2018)