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Kate Chapman– OpenStreetmap for disasters
- Background
- Most maps people used are not free
- “The Wikipedia of Maps”
- Goal: A free map of the whole world
- ODbL – Like CC-BY-SA
- Humanitarian Openstreetmap Projects (HOT)
- 1st official activation in 2009 for Gaza
- Activatation is a response from the community to a callout
- Port-au-prince Jan 12 2010
- Tracing existing satellite photos
- Being used by people on the ground within a week
- Geographic agency build collapsed and many staff killed in earthquake
- Data released by agencies used for maps
- Also covered Northern Haiti which wasn’t as affected by quake
- Created NPO to organise
- Project to map Indonesian ahead of time since disaster-prone country
- Map once, use for many things
- Pilot project – West Nusa Tenggara
- Worked with community to collect data, including demographics data
- Some existing maps were hand drawn or used “dumb” tools like coral-draw
- ASM tools distributed
- Agreement from Govt, NGOs, Companies to make best mapped province in Indonesia
- Mapping Jakarta
- 267 Urban villages
- Talked to each head, get person to map data, University students to input the data
- Varying levels of data quality, in-putted by students
- Flooding in Jan 2013 – Map uses as basis of maps to show areas affected
- Creating a training program (training the trainers)
- openstreetmap.or.id
- Data collected (often by Scouts), printed out maps, got people to walk around fill in gap son paper. Add data to online version
- Used to create impact models for future floods
- 3 part training manual created (English and Indonesian)
- Eurosha
- Training people to go work for 6 months in various African countries
- Other projects to map 200 asian cities that are prone to disasters
- Senegal – training and workshops
- Project in Japan in Tsunami affected areas
- Mapmill –
- Civil Air Patrol takes GPS tagged photos of disaster areas
- People sorted images by damage None/some/bad
- American Red Cross
- Philippines – Typhoon Haiyan hit Nov 2013
- Mapped 10,000 buildings in Tacloban before Typhoon hit
- Website allows people to login and see various tasks that can be done
- Post-event Satellite Imagery needed
- US State Dept released satellite imagery for 30 days
- Able to use photos to do before-vs-after maps on damage
- github.com/hotosm
- digitalhumanitarians.com – various groups
- Volunteer in Person for a Project – See website for lists
- hot.openstreetmap.org
