1. EUROSHA Project in KENYA
Managing humanitarian information through a
voluntary, open-source and open data approach
with the Sahana and OpenStreetMap projects
2. The EUROSHA project
EUROSHA = European Open-Source Humanitarian Aid
Volunteers
Funded by ECHO and implemented by a consortium of 9
European NGOs.
Participates to the European Commission’s general aim to
create a European Volunteer aid corps
Aims specifically at training and creating geographic
information (3W-Who, What, Where & baseline data)
thorough the open-source tools and open data approach of
the Sahana and OpenStreetMap projects
3. The EUROSHA project
- Training 26 European and African volunteers to the Sahana and
OpenStreetMap information management tools and techniques
- Deploying these volunteers during 6 months in 4 African
countries (Chad, CAR, Burundi and Kenya). Hosted by a partner
organization, the volunteers lead these activities:
1. Collection and edition of geographical information useful for
crisis preparedness
2. Capacity building by providing training to organizations and
communities interested by the approach
3. Promotion and outreach
For the benefit of the hosting partner organization as well as the
whole humanitarian system (including the local authorities) and the
local communities
4. The EUROSHA project in Kenya
6 volunteers (4 Europeam and 2 Kenyan)
Hosted by PIPA (People in Peril), operational referent for the
project, in Molo
Administrative support of the volunteers by France Volontaires
International (FVI)
Technical support (on field and remote) by the Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) for the creation of baseline data ala
OSM and scaling up a local OSM community
Remote technical support by the Sahana Foundation for the 3W
data
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5. Projet EUROSHA Tchad – plan d'activites
Phase 1 pilote
Aire geographique : Gore et Sud Tchad
Calendrier 3 mois
Thematiques : education et camp mapping (carte de base) et 3W / projets
Activites : collecte de donnees et formation
Approche ouverte `a d'autres thematiques et besoins d' acteurs humanitaires sur
les aspects collecte et formation.
Restitution a mi projet
Gore
Ndjamena
Phase 2
Approfondissement Gore et Sud Tchad
Re-deploiement au Tchad selon opportunites dans d'autres zones de projet ACRA
et/ou partenaires.
9. OpenStreetMap
A web project to create a free and open map of the
entire world, built entirely from volunteers surveying
with GPS, digitizing aerial imagery, collecting and
liberating existing public sources of geographic data.
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10. History and Stats
2004 Start of OSM
2012 OSM status
Users 825,278
Uploaded GPS points
112,101,094
Nodes 1,594,576,286
Ways 151,330,005
Relations 1575387
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_of_OpenStreetMap
14. Governance
The ecosystem of the OSM community
Citizens
Associations
Local governments
NGOs
International Organizations (UN, WB)
Academia
Private actors:
• Google, Microsoft, Foursquare
• AND
• Cloudmade, Geofabrik, Camptocamp & DevelopmentSeeds
The growth of the OSM project is fostered by
•OpenStreetMap Foundation & local Chapters (France, Spain )
•Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Hum/Dev contexts
16. Data Primitives in OSM
Node : basic element
Latitude & longitude
Used for POIs
Way : ordered interconnection of nodes
Used for linear features
Closed Way : first and last nodes of the way identical
Used for areas
Relation : group of any primitives with associated roles
Used for relationships between objects and abstract
objects
17. Tags/attributes
If the tagging system is fully flexible, allowing anyone to create new keys/values, it is strongly
recommended to use the already existing, debated, approved and described tags so that the
OSM data remains consolidated as much as possible.
The OSM tags can be found on the wiki : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
18. Importing databases (Public domain)
Haiti: Base map layers (MINUSTAH/ CNIGS), Health Facility (WHO), Haiti damage assessment:
ITHACA & UNOSAT vectors…
21. Web Maps: 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.
30. 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 .
33. OSM and Crisis Response in Haiti
Port-au-Prince
Before
28 Days Later
http://vimeo.com/9182869
34. High level imagery timely released under an
“attribution only” license
Google//GeoEye
DigitalGlobe
World Bank (ImageCAT
GFDRR),
SpotImage
CIA
Raw imagery processed into tiles to be made available in OSM editors (potlatch,
merkator & josm)
Hundreds traced 24/7 over base map features, humanitarian features (camps) & also
damages
Incentive for sharing restricted vector data sets
Foster quality of field collection activities
39. Support materials
Data models (tags/attributes)
Les données attributaires OSM sont stockées sous forme d’une paire associant une clé
(key) à des valeurs (values).
Le système de tagging est complètement flexible, permettant de créer des clés et de
nouvelles valeurs ad hoc selon les besoins.
Il est néanmoins recommandé de s’appuyer quand c’est possible sur les tags déjà
existants pour assurer une compatibilité de la donnée OSM.
Le détail du système de tags OSM (clés/ valeurs) est accessible sur le wiki à cette
adresse : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
72. Sahana
• Non-profit organization – supported by global community of
volunteers
• Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for humanitarian
purposes
• Mission is saving lifes through developing free and open
source software that enables organizations and communities
to better prepare for and respond to disasters
• Supports the humanitarian geo-spatial data model used by
OSM which allows Sahana to import and export POIs with
OSM
74. Since the Haiti Earthquake
• Eden software was first deployed for disaster responses purposes following the 2010 Haiti
earthquake for public use and also to support a the food distribution programs of the UN World Food
Programme.
• Since the Haiti earthquake, Eden has been used for the following disasters by individuals,
organizations and governments:
– Wildfires in Chile – 2012
– Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan – 2011
– Flooding in Colombia – 2011
– Flooding in Venezuela – 2010
– Flooding in Pakistan – 2010
– Hurricane in Veracruz, Mexico – 2010
• The following organizations also adopted Eden:
– Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) for its Disaster Risk Reduction Projects Portal,
– IFRC Asia Pacific Disaster Management Unit,
– Sahana Taiwan (Academia Sinica)
– Supports Healthscapes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
75. Sahana in the EUROSHA
project
• Improving Point Of Interest (POI) data
– Organizations, projects, assets, and locations
important for disaster management
• OCHA 3W (Who does, What, Where)
• Health Facility Registry
76. Serves as a database of
organizations and facilities
