SotM2012 Toshikazu Seto, Hal Seki and Taichi Furuhashi

1. The Possibility of OSM Usage
through the Mapping Party for
Tsunami Disaster Restoration
Toshikazu Seto (Tosseto, Ritsumeikan Univ.)
Taichi Furuhashi (MAPconcierge, Tokyo Univ.)
Hal Seki (hal_sk, Georepublic Japan)
and Kamaishi Mapping Team (Hack for Iwate)

2. Keywords
•Kamaishi
•Hack for Iwate x OSM
•Mapping Party
•Restoration + Map(ing)

3. Where is Kamaishi ?
450km

4. Hanamaki
Ichinoseki
Kesennuma
Ishinomaki
Sendai

5. Kamaishi (latitude 39.27378, longitude 141.88467)

6. http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3257/2789009446_954bba0a9a_z.jpg

7. http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6102/6362039867_b018b019da_b.jpg

8. “GeoWeb and crisis management”
Restoration
（Roche, Zimmermann and Mericskay, 2011）

9. The Supports of Recovery and
Restration using “Map”
x

10. Ideathon + Hackathon
Engineers
NPO/NGO etc-
Designers
Problems
Others
Join Ideas,
Human resources
Support
Hack-a-thon
http://www.slideshare.net/hal_sk/sinsaiinfo-and-hack-for-japan-social-media-week
by Hal Seki

11. 2012/03/20 1st Mapping Party
in Kamaishi
■Purpose
• Where is the restoration ?
• What kind of the restoration ?
• (Geo-)visualization of the recently conditions
■Challenges
• Collected detail information from the local residents
• It wants to visit a lot of people in Kamaishi

12. 2012/03/20 Mapping Party in Kamaishi
• Joined over 40 peoples
• Fieldwork (using GPS) + Introduction of OSM
editing
• The logistic support by Yokohama-team

13. What kind of the restoration
map feature(s)
• Target to shops
– The name of the
shop
– Types of the
service
– Opening-closing
time
– Telephone number
– When (and where)
is opened ?

14. 2012/03/16

15. 2012/03/24

16. 2012/05/12-13 2nd Mapping Party
■Purpose in Kamaishi
• What kind of make the restoration map?
• The discuss of the map features:
shops, public facilities, tourism resources etc.
• The development of pdf and/or paper based
auto-making restoration map using OSM data

17. • How to make the “Walking paper” and discuss to map
features for restoration map
• Fieldwork + GIGAPAN (Aoba-park shopping street)
• Hands-on lesson illustrated restoration map using JOSM
(with Walking paper) & Inkspace
• Help desk for the OSM

18. Why is need to make
restoration map ?
(1) To response for local information “Up-to-date”
Official guide by Chamber of Commerce ⇔ OSM
Source: http://kamaishi-town.com/

19. (2) To make the maps as volunteered activity
– cf. Otsuchi-cho kirari-base
Source: http://kirari-base.jimdo.com/宿泊するために必要な-復興支援活動/ 19

20. (2) To share local knowledge and memories with residents
20

21. 2012/09/01-02 Field Excursion
with HOT

22. The Outcome
Hirata temporary housing area

23. Otsuchi-cho Kirari-base

24. Conclusions and future works
• Restoration mapping
– Up-to-date condition
– volunteered activity
– Sharing local knowledge with residents
• To construction of Kamaishi model
– Map features & tags, OSM making methods, making
learning texts
• Otsuchi-cho, Yamada-cho, Rikuzen-takada…
– The consideration to different needs for restoration

25. Some challenges
• More active to the mapping by local residents
– Development of volunteered/participated
local residential activity (framework, learning
materials)
• The response to official restoration plans
– Some region is not decide restoration plans yet.
• The special needs for restoration map features
– The visualization of opening-closing
time, holiday, etc

26. https://github.com/chomy/hukkomap
Made by Keisuke Nakao

27. The localization of MapOSMatic
by Hal Seki (ongoing)

28. Making User manual of Field Papers
by Taichi Furuhashi (ongoing)

29. Thank you for the attention !
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E-mail: tos@lt.ritsumei.ac.jp