The document discusses the role of OpenStreetMap (OSM) in humanitarian responses, highlighting its capacity for rapid mapping during disasters through crowdsourced geographic data. It describes the collaboration between OSM and humanitarian organizations like the UN and Red Cross, emphasizing tools, training, and data sharing protocols that enhance disaster response efforts. The document underscores the importance of open data and community involvement in building accurate maps for effective humanitarian intervention.

1. Pierre Béland
OpenStreetMap Support for Humanitarian
Community

2. OSM Digital Humanitarian Community
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Haiti showed the capacity of volunteer citizens
to provide through internet Crowdsource
geographic data from which UN planned the
humanitarian response
Typhoon Haiyan showed the capacity to scale
further to respond to this major disaster

3. The OpenStreetMap Ecosystem
Developpers and contributors meet through Internet
● Map of the world edited by more then a million Volunteers
● Opendata OdbL license
● Open Platform, Data interchange with ArgGIS, QGIS
● Rich community of OpenSource developpers
– Map Editors, Navigation, Extraction tools, Online maps,
Data Marts
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No other organization has the capacity to escalate mapping
response like the OSM community does in context of
emergency, free and OpenData
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4. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team (HOT)
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acts as a bridge between the OSM community and
the Humanitarians
Coordination with UN, International agencies such as
Red Cross and humanitarian NGO's
Offers various tools, learning material and services to
support humanitarian organizations,
Development projects in various countries
In 2013, Humanitarian Responses for Democratic
Republic of Congo, Mali, Syria and Philippines

5. Create the map
From Aerial Imagery

6. Satellite, Aerial, UAV imagery
Key factors to a rapid and effective response

7. Digitizing imagery provides the
skeleton of OSM maps
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Where Bing Imagery is available, remote OSM
CrowdMapping is immediately started
In context of humanitarian response, various Satellite /
Aerial imagery providers take care to provide Pre and PostDisaster imagery.
For the Haiyan Typhoon, the OSM community participated
to identify damaged buildings
For Haiyan, some Civil Drone imagery were taken. In next
activations they should play a role. They can complete the
imagery available, and give for smaller zones a rapid and
flexible response, provide more precise informations

8. Field Survey and other OpenData to
complete the map
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Availability of OpenData is essential
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Names of Towns / Roads
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Administrative boundaries
Geolocation and Names of essential structures
License problems for administrative data
Field team from various Humanitarian NGO's
start to play a greater role in the geolocalisation
of infrastructures

9. Create the Map
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Priority Zones to map, Pre and Post-disaster
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Mapping instructions
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Coordinate the CrowdMapping effort

10. Tasking Manager – tasks.hotosm.org
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Scalability
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Coordinated and systematic mapping
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Monitor the progression

11. OSM Edits

12. Simple editing

13. Other ways to Edit / Create
OpenData

14. Field Survey
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Field Papers
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GPS navigation data
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Smartphones Offline applications

15. Smartphones offer new possibilities
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Variety of Applications / Offline editing
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Can be adapted for humanitarians
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Possibility to share on a common platform
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FieldPaper
on a
Tablet
to come ...

16. OsmAnd, Route Details

17. OsmAnd Navigation Android
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Search fo POI's
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Style plugins ex.Contour lines

18. Products and Services

19. Osmose : Validation

20. Overpass OSM Extract Queries
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Example : Color impassable roads

21. HOT Exports
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Exports in various formats for Gis Analysis

22. Map Styles That correspond
o your thematic

23. Map Styles
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Tilemill editor
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MapCSS Stylesheet
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Various Styles for different purposes
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Same styles in JOSM facilitates edition
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Custom styles in JOSM can be used to highlight
humanitarian infrastructures to update
Humanitarian Style : More POI's and
humanitarian related objects

24. OSM Styles

25. Derived OSM Maps

26. Umap POI's and dynamic url

27. Yolanda Geonode
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Road, Bridge damages (extract from OSM)

28. Crowdmap : Impact maps
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Gathers infos from SMS and other sources
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Helps prioritize mapping / Inform Humanitarians
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DHNetwork workflows to develop with OSM

29. Paper Maps
“You should see people's faces light
up when we arrive with a load of
OpenStreetMap posters”
Dale Kunce – American Red Cross
American Red Cross. Used with permission
https://twitter.com/RedCross/status/401088520481042432
Joe Lowry CCBYSA2.0 http://flic.kr/p/hHMxee

30. A common approch is necessary
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Geolocated data should be shared.
Possibility to move from hierarchical structures
to more interchange
OSM plays the role of a common platform
New Communication Networks and smarphones
tools offer more flexibiliy
Some experiences to Open
the possibility for Field
teams to share data
with OpenData license

31. OSM Common Platform
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Humanitarian community data acquisition
workflows to be revised to share data with
others
OSM do play this role of providing a Free, Open
platform, a diversity of tools to manage and
exploit data, learning material and support to
humanitarian organisations.
Pierre Béland
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Board Director
Leads Humanitarian Activations for HOT