TechNovatation Talks: Crowdsourcing & Gamification

Learning from Missing Maps & MapSwipe

Tyler Radford

@TylerSRadfor

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Lay’s Do Us a Flavor

Why OpenStreetMap matters

Same location - different map

Photo: Brian Sokol/Panos via MSF

Hananasif, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

January 2015

Mapping for flood resilience in Dar es Salaam

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Urban flooding, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Huge areas of the world have been mapped in detail…

…But lots left to do

Local knowledge – crowdsourced on a big global scale

Missing Maps: Global

HOT Tasking Manager: tasks.hotosm.org

Color-coded progress encourages volunteer crowd

Remote mapping: Aerial imagery

Remote mapping: Digitization

Remote mapping: Vector data

Hananasif, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

January 2017

In particular, crowdsourced geodata

Here are those flood-prone neighborhoods in Tanzania again

30k Volunteers | Hundreds of communities all over the world

Moving forward: YOUTH

• Minimapathons etc

YouthMappers at Texas Tech University

Photo: YouthMappers at Texas Tech University

Indonesia HOT / OSM Community

DHN: Connecting formal with volunteer

Refugees contributing to the global map in Yumbe, Uganda

Missing Maps: Local

July 2016

https://youtu.be/Sau2ULAtXaU

Data viz – malaria

Mapping for Malaria Elimination: As of today

600,000 km2 | 4.5M buildings | 4000 volunteers

Vaccination planning and fumigation

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Kinshasa, DRC: August 2016

Yellow Fever – 10 million vaccinated

Photo: MSF

PROCESS equally valuable as end PRODUCT: learning,

leading, driving social change

Governments are doing it

UN Depts/Agencies, int’l orgs using OSM & crowdsourcing

Register: summit.hotosm.org

tyler.radford@hotosm.org

@TylerSRadford

@hotosm