The document summarizes the contributions of OpenStreetMap (OSM) in mapping efforts in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. It details how OSM data was made available within days and used by responders. Hundreds of mappers were trained through programs run by the HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team). By 2012, OSM data was being used by several organizations in Haiti for disaster risk management, education, health, and other mapping projects.

1. Mapping education features in Haiti
Contributions from the experience of the OSM project
PAP, Feb 2012

2. What is openstreetmap?
The openstreetmap “one-liner”
A web project to create a free and open map of
the entire world, built entirely from volunteers
surveying with GPS, digitizing aerial imagery, and
collecting and liberating existing public sources of
geographic data.
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3. Facts on remote OSM work in Haiti
Day 1 Day 28
OSM data in SHP & GPS map extracts (Garmin) available day 1; WFS day 2
OSM = roads core data set (OCHA Core Data sets check-list).
OSM data used as SHP, WFS, WMS in responders mapping production
26 hours to get imagery released and 48 hours to get 1st imagery loaded on
the OSM platform available for tracing

4. HOT Missions facts
Hundreds trainees
UN Cluster System - GoH - Civil Society
Pap, Jacmel, Leogane & Gonaives
Train the trainers schemes involving Haitian mappers
Training package
Support
June 2010: IOM actively using OSM and hiring Haitian trainees
Aug 2010: creation of the Communaute OpenStreetMap Haiti
(COSMHA) from past trainees working from IOM

5. HOT support to IOM May/August – April 2011
Mapping
Baseline (transportation - street name)
Infra-camp features
Humanitarian baselines: cholera & disaster risk management (hurricane
shelters)
Capacity building
Creation of a mapping team made of COSMHA mappers Cite Soleil
Support to OSM mappers in IOM
Train IOM staffs and partners in UN-GoH-Civil Society in Survey and
OSM
Geographic span
4 mapping teams In Pap, Leogane, Jacmel and Gonaives

6. OSM ecosystem in Haiti Jan 2012
DRR & Baseline mapping with IOM
IOM-GIS unit partnership with Coopi/IRD
* 20 mappers from COSMHA
* International support/ set-up by HOT
DRR & baseline mapping
Port Au Prince : quake affected metropolitan areas
April 2011 → April/May 2012
Mapping the Saint-Marc Development Corridor
USAID/OTI/HRI & COSMHA/HOT
1 HOT (volunteership/ internship) & 9 COSMHA to train 30 Youths
Training & baseline survey/ mapping
Create a COSMHA-SaintMarc
Jan-April 2012
Haitidata.org
Advisory mission on haitidata and use of OSM in DRR perspective
Data upload
Advising/ set up role to use OSM to map Haiti within a DRR perspective
Projects in design
Education, health...

7. OSM ecosystem in Haiti Jan 2012
Soley leve
Mapping component of a voluntary community lead project in Cite Soleil.
TapTapMap.org
Voluntary mapping of public/private transportation lines in Pap and Haiti
Education & training
Haiti Communitere (HC)
Ecole Superieure d'Infotronique d'Haiti (ESIH)
OSM in Business
Maps
GPS maps
Apps around Androids/Tablets.

8. free and open voluntary map of the
Voluntary, individual open contributions under
world. open contribution. open use.
open licence (OdbL), open use

9. WORKFLOW

10. Wiki

11. OSM-Quality Assurance

12. Tasking server

13. Tasking server

14. Tasking server - JOSM

15. Tasking server – walking paper

16. Direct measurements: walking papers
Combined, GPS and Walking Papers
can be used for rapid surveying and
ground truthing.
Walking Papers allow users to print out
small sections of the OSM map. In the
field, these paper maps can be used to
draw new features, annotate existing
data, and take notes that will help with
the import of GPS data.
Icons in each of the corners and a
unique code for each Walking Paper let
users scan the paper and upload to
OSM so the notes can be viewed in an
editing environment.
http://walking-papers.org

17. Preparing Survey

18. Support materials
HOT Hardware kit, / OSM Kit / Guides

19. Direct measurements: Questionnaires.
Based on OSM Humanitarian Data Model (HDM)

20. Map Features
Semantic interoperability

21. Humanitarian Data Model
Semantic interoperability

22. Surveying

23. Editing the OSM database with JOSM

24. JOSM

25. JOSM - history

26. Mapper

27. JOSM - validation

28. OSM Inspector - Validation

29. KeepRight - Validation

30. TagInfo - Tag Validation

31. TagInfo - Tag Validation

32. TagWatch - Tag Validation

33. Documentation
Wiki
Guides
Tutorials
Developments
Imports
Mapping projects
…

34. Uses
OSM Education data as customized WMS (ITO)

35. Uses
OSM data WMS and OSM extracts and shapefile (GeoFabrik

36. Garmin GPS maps

37. City plans - MapOSMatic

38. Routing service

39. Quality: Muki Aklay (UCL) positional accuracy comparisons
United Kingdom: OSM - Ordnance Survey Meridian II database
Haiti: OSM - GoogleMapMaker – MINUSTAH/CNIGS
The analysis shows that, where OSM
was collected by several
users and benefited from some
quality assurance, the quality
of the data is comparable and can be
fit for many applications.
The positional accuracy is about 6
metres, which is expected
for the data collection methods that
are used in OSM. The
comparison of motorways shows
about 80% overlap between
OSM and OS .

40. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_
Team
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/
hot@openstreetmap.org
Talk-ht@openstreetmap.org
nicolas.chavent@hotosm.org
hotosm@gmail.com