Presentation given during the TechatState Civil Society 2.0 Disaster Risk Management Panel on November 4th

1. Open Geographic Data
Haiti, Afghanistan and...
Kate Chapman
FortiusOne/GeoCommons
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (AKA H.O.T.)

2. Wikipedia for Maps
OpenStreetMap.org

3. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team
Goal is: to apply the principles and activities of open
source and open data sharing towards humanitarian
response and economic development.

4. Geographic Data Sharing/
Visualization
GeoCommons.com

5. Haiti
CC-BY-SA OpenStreetMap

7. Courtesy of John Crowley STAR-TIDES

10. What next?

11. Training

13. Classes
Instruction Materials
-English -English
-French -French
-Creole

14. Most Any GPS Will Work
H.O.T. purchases
Garmin eTrex with
MicroSD Cards

15. Imagery

16. Walking Papers
Printable Map
Collect Data by Writing
Scan and Upload
Edit for OpenStreetMap
http://www.walking-papers.org/

17. HOT Package
Training Materials
Software
Survey Forms
Presets for Editing
http://bit.ly/hotpack

18. Humanitarian Data Model
Intended to Map to Already Existing Data Models
Translated into JOSM Presets and PostGIS Imports
http://bit.ly/hothdm

19. “A group called the OpenStreetMap team also is
riding motorbikes through the streets of Haiti,
carrying GPS equipment to map schools and
clinics properly so aide workers and locals know
where to get treatment,” -CNN
http://bit.ly/hotcnn

20. Schools
Survey

21. Hurricane Shelters
photo courtesy Trevor Ellermann

22. Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Photo Courtesy Todd Huffman

23. Kabul in Google Maps

24. Kabul in OpenStreetMap
CC-BY-SA OpenStreetMap & Contributors

25. Roads Imported

27. Road Import

28. Local Knowledgebases

29. Kate Chapman
@wonderchook
kate@fortiusone.com