Humanitarian Open Street Map Team: Haiti Kiosk Mapping Overview

Presented to internal staff at RIDOLFI Inc. A high-level overview of OSM, the efforts of HOT in Haiti, and the work performed to create prototype kiosk maps for settlement camps.

1. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T) An Overview March 3rd, 2011 Credit: Chimen Lakay
2. Overview • What is OpenStreetMap (OSM) • Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) • Humanitarian Data Model • IOM Kiosk Mapping
3. • A wiki-style freely editable map of the world • Add data through: – Web – Desktop – GPS – Paper Maps OpenStreetMap
4. Walking Papers
5. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team • Utilize OSM for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development • "The mission is to support use of OSM on the ground in Haiti within groups of UN and international responders, the Haitian Government, and Haitian civil society. – Mikel Maron
6. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team • Four Missions to Haiti • Training personnel in field data collection • Organized working relationships with other humanitarian orgs and the Haitian national mapping agency. Credit: Dane Springmeyer
7. Pre and Post Earthquake http://vimeo.com/9182869
8. Humanitarian Data Model • Data are collected from a wide-variety of teams using different methods • Open-endedness of OSM data model can lead to disorganization • HDM, a common set of standards which all imported data will adhere to Credit: Dane Springmeyer
9. MapOSMatic
10. MapOSMatic
11. Project Details
12. Looking Forward • Knight News Challenge Grant Attempt • Comunite OpenStreetMap de Haiti (COSMHA) – Sponsored by IOM – Over 200 volunteer mappers • Build Services Around the HDM