This document discusses how OpenStreetMap data and volunteers helped respond to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. It describes how within a week of the earthquake, over 700 volunteers had mapped Haiti using satellite imagery. The highly detailed maps helped first responders locate roads, buildings, and camps. Damage assessments were also mapped. The UN noted that mapping Haiti normally would have taken years but OSM did it in just 3 weeks. OSM data continues to help with ongoing crisis response and reconstruction efforts in Haiti through tools like the Humanitarian Data Model and deployments of the OSM Humanitarian Team.

1. The OpenStreetMap Project
& Haiti Earthquake Case Study
title
Tim Waters
OSM Foundation
@tim_waters

2. = +

3. Easy to use

4. Want custom tiles?

5. Want data?
Planet
http://planet.openstreetmap.org/
Full
Daily
Hour
Minutely etc
Osmosis
--tag-filter accept-nodes amenity=toilet
OSM2PGSQL

6. .shp Extracts

7. HAITI
What we did in Haiti changed
disaster response forever.
Jeffery Johnson

8. 1 Data collection
2 Apply to Disaster Response
3 Reconstruction
Crisis is ongoing!

9. 1. Data Collection
Creation and Collection
of Data
Mass Collaboration

10. 12 Jan 2010

11. Day 1

13. Day 1

14. Day 3

15. Day 1

16. Day 2

17. 1 Week

18. 2 Weeks

19. For the first time ever we now have a set of conditions where individuals from the
comfort and safety of their own home can literally help other people save lives in a
disaster zone by contributing to OSM & Ushahidi
Schuyler Erle
UN “Would have taken tens of thousands of pounds and years to do. OSM took 3 weeks.”

21. DigitalGlobe, Google, NOAA,
World Bank (ImageCAT GFDRR),
GeoEye, SpotImage, CIA
Geoeye
“You can trace this imagery
in OSM”

22. We need tiles

26. 3 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0
THREE MINUTES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pBBK1SHh0

27. http://www.flickr.com/photos/sidereal/17380004/

28. Day 1

29. Day 28

30. 
Satellite and aerial imagery was
made available.

Volunteers (>700) marshalled that
imagery and made it usable.

Volunteers traced the imagery into
OSM.

Volunteers prepared extracts of OSM
for reuse.

31. 1 Data collection
2 Apply to Disaster Response
3 Reconstruction

32. Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team
“wish you could see their faces 'light up' when I take their GPS unit and
tell them that I'm going to give them street level detail maps.
Mapaction - training and loading up. Most SAR are firefighters.

33. Tagging Earthquake Damage
earthquake:damage: collapsed_building
earthquake:damage: spontaneous_camp
earthquake:damage: damaged_infrastructure
earthquake:damage: landslide

34. Damage Assessment

35. NEED to map
Distributing Food & Water “
any spontaneous camps
appearing in the imagery”
Mapping requirement mentioned by United Nations
Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
(UNOCHA) 69 B
earthquake:damage: spontaneous_camp
tourism: camp_site
refugee: yes

37. Obstacle
Routing – OpenRouteService
Dont even bother with GMaps!

38. 1 Data collection
2 Apply to Disaster Response
3 Ongoing crisis & recovery

41. OSM HOT
Deployments
Support the use of OSM on the ground to make sure it stays relevant
and useful into the recovery, reconstruction, development of Haiti.
= Audience =
* groups of UN and international responders,
* the Haitian government,
* Haitian civil society
= Activities =
* Surveying with GPS/Walking Papers
* Editing
* Ensuring an efficient use of OSM resources by the responders
* Training
* Humanitarian Data Model and data imports
* Work with QGIS / PostGIS & extension to wider GIS workflows

42. Humanitarian Data Model
Presets
Questionnaires
Cartography

46. Supported by
Many organisations:
OpenGeo
World Bank
MapAction
ESRI
World Food Programme

47. Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team
http://hot.openstreetmap.org
Relief Map Warper
http://maps.nypl.org/relief
Haiti Crisis Map
http://hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/
OpenRouteService for Haiti
http://openls.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/osm-haiti/
Walking Papers
http://walking-papers.org
OSM Shapefiles
http://www.geofabrik.de/data/download.html
CrisisMappers
http://www.crisismappers.net/ @tim_waters