Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction across the Americas: A Regional Summit on the Contribution of Earth Observations

1. Building Capacity: Rapid Mapping for Disaster Response
Miriam González
@mapanauta
Strengthening Disaster Risk Reduction across the Americas:
A Regional Summit on the Contribution of Earth Observations

2. How do you imagine Mexico?

3. México

4. México

5. México
Looks very peaceful!
But…

6. Mexico City Earthquake

7. Hurricane Wilma

8. Hurricane Patricia

9. Note to Mr. Trump:

11. Land slides

12. Popocatepetl Volcano
Pronuntiation
[popokaˈtepetɬ]
One more time…
poe-poe-kah-TE-petl
Still can’t make it?
Just call him
Don Goyo ☺

13. ¿What is OpenStreetMap?

14. Open Crowd-Sourced Maps

15. Why OpenStreetMap and
not other Maps?

16. vs.
• Data is property of the Company
• Starting from a number of queries
through their APIs generate
considerable costs
• The maps focus on places with
stronger economies where you can
carry out advertising, one of the
sources of income
• Map updates are carried out
periodically
• OSM data is from everyone and for
everyone
• Data queries of individuals, companies,
civil societies have no cost
• Do not discriminate any region, there
are projects to map the places that do
not exist in any commercial map
(HOTOSM)
• Map updates are immediately

17. vs.
• Data is property of the Company
• Starting from a number of queries
through their APIs generate
considerable costs
• The maps focus on places with
stronger economies where you can
carry out advertising, one of the
sources of income
• Map updates are carried out
periodically
• OSM data is from everyone and for
everyone
• Data queries of individuals, companies,
civil societies have no cost
• Do not discriminate any region, there
are projects to map the places that do
not exist in any commercial map
(HOTOSM)
• Map updates are immediately
Open Data
Closed Data
Just for
visualization

18. Who we are?

19. Community in Mexico and LatAm

20. Mapping Pre-disaster examples

21. Humanitarian Mapping- Hurricane Patricia
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-
changesets?comment=huracanpatricia#8/20.095/-103.381

22. Humanitarian Mapping- Hurricane
Patricia
• #SimulacroMX it helped to establish
the a way to organize
• > 500 collaborators in Mexico and rest
of the World
• > 1,000,000 map editions in the area
• > 100,000 road editions
• > 80,000 buildings were mapped

23. Recognition by the President of Mexico
http://bit.ly/internetday2016

24. Mapping Informal settlements
in risk areas

27. Informal settlements- Ciudad del Carmen
• Ways: +1000
• Highways: +500
• Buildings: +9,000
• Waterways: +30

28. Informal settlements- Ciudad del Carmen

30. Mapping
methods

31. Mapping Post-disaster

35. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap #MappingEcuador
Antes Después

36. International Media

37. Timeline
April 16th 2016
Earthquake Magnitude 7.8M
In different
communication tools in
the volunteer network
the conversation about
how to support
Ecuador started
The Community
decided to use
Telegram as the
main
communication tool
and prepared a Wiki
with the Project
details
#MappingEcuador
was chose to
identify all
communication and
mapping related

38. Timeline
Digital Globe donates before and after
imagery of the areas impacted under a
CC0 license (=public domain)
On Line webminars
were recorded to
teach people how to
map (beginners)
Also Imagery Used:
• SIG Tierras
• IGM (Instituto
Geográfico Militar)
• SIN (Sistema Nal de
Información)

39. Timeline
Creating projects in
HOTOSM Tasking Manager
Defined priority
affected areas
On Line webminars
were recorded to
teach people how to
map (Intermediate)

40. Timeline
9 days after, 95% of
priority area defined
by SENPLADES is
covered ≈ 10.000
squared kilometers
already mapped!!

41. Timeline
HOTOSM Tasking
Manager Project
with advances

43. Timeline
Mapping for
reconstruction

44. Now that we have the data…
What’s next?

45. Use the exporting tools!!!

46. Humanitarian Mapping- Ecuador Earthquake
Contributors 2,707 volunteers
Objects mapped +3,500,000
OSM Ecuador lead Daniel Orellana
Hot Activation lead Humberto Yances
Project Coordinator Alexandra Escobar
All these could not be possible without the people who
believes that mapping makes a difference!!!

47. Next mapping event in
the Americas:
State of the Map LatAm
2017

48. Training session

49. &
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOTOSM)

50. Contact & Social Networks
Humanitarian OSM
www.hotosm.org
Miriam Gonzalez
@mapanauta @GeochicasOSM