Haiti/Saint-Marc/STM020
Aims
Between January and April 2012, this pilot project aims at both improving drastically the baseline data across the territory of the commune of Saint-Marc and building strong mapping capacities within the Saint-Marc development corridor, based on the OpenStreetMap (OSM) technologies and training concepts. It is led by COSMHA (Communauté OSM de Haiti) with HOT (Humanitarian OSM Team) support, and funded by USAID/OTI (the US Agency for International Development's Office of Transition Initiatives).
Regarding the data, the project aims at collecting and updating the baseline data necessary for the economic development of this territory. On the first hand, specific tools will be created in order to allow an easy access to the OSM data through interoperable exchange file formats (shapefile, kml, spatialite) from a download web dataservice (ETL, Extract Transform Load). On the other hand, web visualization tools will be designed for the collected data. With this set, the different parties involved in the Saint-Marc development corridor will be provided raw data and map products as well as important elements such as geo-spatial comprehension and decision making.
The COSMHA/HOT team supervises 30 young people from various localities within the Saint-Marc territory who are trained in order to make the whole mapping of their commune. In the end, this approach aims at an autonomous OpenStreetMap community being set up in Saint-Marc, that will handle the techniques, documentation, tools, processes and collective systems all necessary to lead and continue the ground data collection and editing activities created and implemented during the STM020 project. This community will also be able to create new OSM based projects in the Saint-Marc development corridor, the Artibonite departement or other places within the Haitian territory.
Outside the project direct aims, many activities are organized around the OSM and mapping themes, mostly during the week-ends.
Activities organized around the project
- Sunday, February 5, 2012
Internal training about the GPS technology and using an online office automation softwares
- Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The project team and the young people from Saint-Marc take part in the Night of the Living Maps
- Thursday, February 9, 2012
Learning how to read and understand a printed professional map (Haïti and Dominican Republic, Nelles editions, 2011)
- Friday, February 10, 2012
Community involvement and OSM mapping combining TileMill with the Soley Leve project presented by Louino Robillard, also a COSMHA member. Link to the video
- Sunday, February 12, 2012
Wiki OSM : page Saint-Marc, STM020 and Wiki user accounts
- Thursday, February 16, 2012
How to correctly tag the roads in Haiti with OSM, presented by Jaakko Helleranta, international OSM member living in Port-au-Prince. Link to the video
- Saturday, February 25, 2012
Social networks and OSM in Haiti : Wikipages, Wiki user accounts, Twitter, Facebook group, etc. Creating a voluntary working group to continue after the training
Demonstrating how to use a differential GPS by Frédéric Moine, IOM
- Sunday, February 26, 2012
Drawing the neighborhoods maps of Saint-Marc: listing the known neighborhoods, pointing them on a collection of Walking Papers, drawing their borders if possible and creating voluntary groups to continue the ongoing work
Learning the eye on the Mapnik rendering to detect some categories of mistakes not taken in charge by the quality assurance tools: orthographic rules, street naming rules, etc. in order to get maps with professional rendering
- Saturday, March 3, 2012
Neighborhoods maps of Saint-Marc: returning and commenting the work done
The starting voluntary OSM project in Gonaives, presented by Presler Jean, COSMHA member. Link to the video
Disaster Risk Reduction mapping with OSM in Cite Soleil, presented by Presler Jean, IOM
- Sunday, March 4, 2012
Participation to the tap-tap map in Haïti (Facebook group), organized by ALCE Samuel Paul, both the creator and coordinator of this voluntary OSM project. The ongoing map can be shown at OSMtransport
"Cap Haïtien : Urban stories" , presented by Violaine Colonna d'Istria, PhD student from the EHESS (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), History and Civilization department, MASCIPO (Mondes Américains, Sociétés, Circulations, Pouvoirs - American Worlds, Societies, Circulations, Powers) laboratory , and also a city planner working for the FAU (Fondation Architectes de l'Urgence - Emergency Architects) regarding a communautary planning project
- Saturday, March 10, 2012
"Noula, a crisis management portal made in Haiti, inspired and designed for a strong nation" presented by its president and founder Kurt Jean-Charles, also CEO of Solutions SA
- Saturday, March 10, 2012
Session about the OSM renderings, GoogleEarth, and Geonode (haitidata.org)
- OSM renderings
- osm.org: OSM renderings in osm.org
- service unpaved street map: to visualize the non-paved roads and streets
- Maposmatic: to easily create city maps with street names indexes
- Carte MapOSMatics de Saint Marc: note the use of the street names index for quality control
- MapOSMatics ground guide
- Routage/ Routing service
- Google Earth
- Haitidata
- Geographic data about Haiti :
- Saturday and Sunday, March 24/25, 2012
Mapping Party in Gonaives
- Saturday, April 1, 2012
Quantum GIS session based on a Learn OSM appendix