Humanitarian OSM Tags
OpenStreetMap has historically been geared for mapping in developed countries, in non-emergency situations. In the urgent response to the Haiti earthquake, the traditional OSM approach was very useful in itself, but as field work becomes more established in Haiti, the relative chaos of the OSM tagging becomes less useful to organizations working in traditional GIS modes. Field responders need to easily know how OSM tags relate to their existing data models, and how to include new types of things in OSM - features which may only be relevant in disaster response.
The Humanitarian Data Model seeks to reconcile schemas from many humanitarian response agencies, all of which are based on field requirements. When possible, it matches Humanitarian attributes to existing Map Features in OSM. Once these mappings are established, imports to and exports from OSM to response agencies becomes more straightforward, and could lead to direct participation of OSM by responders. Extract-Transform-Load tools will smooth this effort. Note, the documentation and aligning process does push the limits of the wiki, and does suggest requirements for tools to explicitly manage this process.
The goal is through the Haiti response, provide very useful data and references via OSM, and have established preparations and relationships for the next emergency.
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Humanitarian Data Model
Describing the Humanitarian Data Model, with mapping of existing OSM tags and new OSM tag proposals to HDM attributes.
Humanitarian OSM Tags/Humanitarian Data Model
Requirements from the Field
This section brings input from humanitarian responders into the Humanitarian Data Model.
So far we've been engaging with PAHO/HFacs on Health Facilities. MINUSTAH roads data. And UNSDI-t from the Logistic Cluster.
Need to flesh out these details in a new subpage, the available materials, and level of approval/review/use.
Usage and Suggestions from OSM
This subpage brings input from the OpenStreetMap community into the Humanitarian Data Model. Idea is to continually review OSM community activity and discussion, then align, adjust, and/or extend the Humanitarian Data Model accordingly. And Vice Versa.
Covers: Tags in current use. Proposals for new kinds of things that need tagging.
Humanitarian OSM Tags/Humanitarian Data Background
A related HOT-sponsored symbology development project: Humanitarian OSM Tags: Indonesia 2011.
Preset files for humanitarian features
JOSM
You can fetch a presets file for use with JOSM under the address below:
