Humanitarian OSM Team

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The mapkibera project (mapkibera.org) is training local people of Kibera, Nairobi to create and own their map with OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap being used by search & rescue teams after the Haiti earthquake.

The community responded rapidly creating the best map resources available anywhere. Our maps continue to be used for redevelopment planning, and H.O.T. people are currently on-the-ground in Haiti giving training in use and improvement of the data

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] now has a website at hot.openstreetmap.org

Free, collaborative maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially in places where base map data is often scarce and out of date. OpenStreetMap is a web project to create a free and open map of the entire world, built entirely from volunteers surveying with GPS, digitizing aerial imagery, and collecting and liberating existing public sources of geographic data. Building on two years of informal collaborations, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development.

Objectives of H.O.T.

Core Mission

• connecting point between humanitarian and open mapping communities
• remote data creation during crisis
• collection and organization of existing data sources
• deployments to the field possible
• distribution point for free data

Advocacy, Training and Outreach

• mapping parties
• speaking, writing, meetings in humanitarian and United Nations technical communities

Thinking and Design

• promotion of crowd-sourcing and simple web standards for data sharing
• technical improvements to OSM and OSGeo in response to field requirements (offline support, verification, format adaptors, multi-master sync..)

Haiti-inspired medium term strategy and proposal

Many issues and plans emerged from the Haiti response, leading to a medium term plan for HOT, access the Humanitarian OSM Team/Haiti Strategy And Proposal

HOT Package

• HOT Package

Projects

Current

• 2010 07 Pakistan Floods
• 2010 Alagoas Flooding
• 2010 Yushu earthquake
• 2010 Chile earthquake
• 2010 Haiti Earthquake
• MapKibera Project
• 2010 Shkoder Flooding
• 2010-03 Cyclone Tomas over Wallis and Futuna

Past

• Philippines - Storm Ondoy
• Iran -- Post-Election Crisis
• Gaza

Other H.O.T. Activities to Date

• Map Kibera Import .. help bring Map Kibera into OpenStreetMap
• Humanitarian_OSM_Tags
• Routing, Import of data and GPS mapping in Haiti following Hurricane Gustav
• Coordinating travel scholarships for developing world mappers to attend State of the Map 2009
• Technical advising in Palestinian West Bank mapping
• UN and OSM
• Advocacy and Mapping Parties in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa
• FreeMapIndia 2008 Workshop Tour
• OSM training following Cyclone Nargis
• Opening and Import of UN map data for Sudan

Communications

Mailing lists

• HOT mailing list

Blogs

• HOT blog
• Blog posts on HOT activities by members of the Team (brainoff, Chippy...)

Presentations

• Presentations on HOT activities by members of the Team on SlideShare (Harry's, Mikel's, Nicolas's, Tim's...)
• Humanitarian OSM Team/Haiti at SOTM
• OSM work in 12-Jan Haiti Earthquaek response at UNOSAT - World Bank and The European Uniono Joint Research Centre workshop on Damage Assessment (Geneva 26/27 April 2010)
• FOSSGIS 2010, lightning talk about crisismapping in Haiti by John07 Slides (German): [1]
• http://www.slideshare.net/chippy/openstreetmap-using-tools-services-hows-its-changed-humanitarian-response
• Harry - Aid Information Challenge slides
• Haiti Mapping BarCamp Canberra 2010 (Shoaib)
• gis-news.de
• CartONG at UNGIWG to represent OSM H.O.T.
• http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/reuters-alertnet-mapping-workshop/
• http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/11/17/1374
• http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/geong-2008-forum-unsdit-open-data/

Meeting Notes

• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/SOTM2010 planning session

Related Initiatives and Partnerships

• DevelopmentSeed has imported FAO Africover to OSM
• Data sharing through UNSDI-t
• Ushahidi and Sahana integrate OpenStreetMap
• JumpStart International in Palestine
• Mapping & Planning Support (MAPS) - Canberra, Australia

Other resources

• oxfam recent emergencies - google map. boo!
• Wikinews.org categories: politics & conflicts disasters & accidents- open licensed news

People Interested

Incorporation

• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S. Bylaws
• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S. Articles of Incorporation
• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Members
• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Board Elections