State of the Map Asia (SotM-Asia) is the annual regional conference of OpenStreetMap (OSM) organized by OSM communities in Asia. First SotM-Asia was organized in Jakarta, Indonesia in 2015, and the second was organized in Manila, Philippines in 2016. This year’s conference, third in the series, was organized in Kathmandu, Nepal on September 23 – 24, 2017 at Park Village Resort, Budhanilkantha, Kathmandu, Nepal. We brought nearly 200 Open Mapping enthusiasts from Asia and beyond to this year’s SotM-Asia. The event provided an opportunity to share knowledge and experience among mappers; expand their network; and generate ideas to expand map coverage and effective use of OSM data in Asian continent. We chose ‘from creation to use of OSM data’ as the theme of this year’s conference, emphasizing on the effective use of OSM data. We also brought together a government panel from four different countries in this year’s SotM-Asia. We believe this event will deepen the bond and enhance collaboration among OSM communities across Asia. More information about the conference can be found on: http://stateofthemap.asia.

1. Ahasanul Hoque
Geospatial & OpenData Specialist
SOTM Asia’17
Kathmandu, Nepal
OPENSTREETMAP BANGLADESH:
ADDING DATA FOR GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN NEEDS

2. History of OSM in Bangladesh
 2010- BUET project
 2011-university working groups
 2013- Revived through open cities project
 2014-
 Training to GIS professionals and students
 Community formed
 Missing maps project in Dhaka ;
 Mapped Hazaribagh tannery area,
 super dense Lalbagh area

3. History of OSM in Bangladesh
 2015 –
 INGOS and Donars
- iCARE, MissingMaps, AmCross etc
 Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS)
 Project Kolorob launched by Save the children international
- 360 different category roads & tracks,
- 4000 buildings/houses and
- 300 different service points
 Dense Gandaria Mapping
 Dense Moghbazar Mapping
- >5000 buildings
- > 2000 POIs

4. History of OSM in Bangladesh
 2016 –
 Formal Program launched by INGOS, NGO
 Approached formally to Govt and non Govt. Universities
like:
 Dhaka University
 Khulna University
 Daffodil Inter. University
 BRAC University
 Dhaka College
 TOT for BDRCS Volunteers
 Local community’s capacity building :
 Dhaka City Corporation Wards
 Dhaka Slum community

5. History of OSM in Bangladesh
 2017 –
 Collaboration with PATHAO startup
 Collection of new road and rout data of major cities
 Building data : 500 K buildings in 4 months
 Data cleaning : cleaning the data, shaping the buildings
 Expanding to other cities
 Flood Resilience Project of ADB
 Sirajganj
 Patuakhali
 Barguna
 Response to 2017 Bangladesh Monsoon Flood
 Formation of OSMBD Foundation

6. State of OSM in Bangladesh

7. State of OSM in Bangladesh

8. State of OSM in Bangladesh
1,097
4,043
7,005
15,855
17,751
26,967
31,864
35,460
180,175
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
TOTAL KM ROADS COMPLETED

9. State of OSM in Bangladesh
YEAR BUILDINGS
2017 >15,30,00
2016 1,54,491
2015 53,286
2014 40,979
2013 4,121
2012 616

10. State of OSM in Bangladesh

14. State of OSM in Bangladesh
Area Mapped Upazila, District Household
covered
Population
Ward no. 67, 68, and 69 Old Dhaka city WSP and GFDRR 24887 137092
Sattola Slum Mohakhali Dhaka Dhaka WASA 8000 36000
Korail Slum Banani Dhaka Dhaka WASA 35,555 1,60,000
Kamrangir Char Dhaka MissignMaps + OSM trainees by WSP 21,600 93,601
Hazaribagh Union Dhaka MissignMaps + OSM trainees by WSP 43,700 185,639
Lalbagh thana Dhaka OSM trainees by WSP 83,809 369,933
Chandanpur village Singair, Manikganj BBS + OSM trainees by WSP 66 297
Netokona Sadar Netrokona Stanford University + ICDDRB + OSM trainees by WSP 81010 372785
Dhalla Union Netrokona Stanford University + ICDDRB + OSM trainees by WSP 8181 36203
Madan Upazila Netrokona Stanford University + ICDDRB + OSM trainees by WSP 31751 154489
Jamitra Union Netrokona Stanford University + ICDDRB + OSM trainees by WSP 5318 7 23763
Kendua Netrokona Netrokona Stanford University + ICDDRB + OSM trainees by WSP 66,133 304,729
Durgapur Netrokona MissingMaps+YCare+ Stanford University + ICDDRB +
OSM trainees by WSP
6070 27,588
Kaligram union Muksedpur,
Gopalganj
MissingMaps+YCare+ Stanford University + ICDDRB +
OSM trainees by WSP
4,541 20,912
Batiaghata Upazila Khulna USAID + Khulna University 3,884 16,282
Anwara upazila Chittagong MissingMaps+YCare+ Stanford University + ICDDRB +
OSM trainees by WSP
2,171 10,260
Total 4,26,676 26,49,573

15. Community Development: Success

16. Community Development: Success

17. Community Development: Success

18. Community Development: Success

19. Community Development: Success

20. Research

21. Involvement of Govt Orgs

22. Find OSM Bangladesh
 Facebook group : OpenStreetMap Bangladesh
 Twitter : @osmbd
 Mail : osmbd1@gmail.com

23. Formalization

24. Approaching
An opendata ecosystem

25. OSM data
Gov.
Agencies
NGOS
iNGOS
Communiti
es
Academic/
Research
Donars
Open Government Data !!

26. Email: hoque.ahasan@gmail.com;
Web : ahasanulhoque.com
"If you’re not on a map, you are
deprived of lot of services nowadays"
Ahasanul Hoque
Consultant – GIS-RS & Open Data |The World Bank
Country Coordinator| Youthmappers
Board & Voting Member| Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT)
MSc in RS & GIS| AIT, Thailand.
MSc. in Env. Science| KU, Bangladesh.
Diploma in Disaster Management (Uni of Hawai-USA, UNU, Keio & Okayama - Japan; AIT-Thailand)
Contact: hoque.ahasan@gmail.com; ahasan_17@yahoo.com |
Web: ahasanulhoque.com;