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.”
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.
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.
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
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
