ICCM 2012 - Tech Training

OpenStreetMap

Severin Menard

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (AKA H.O.T.)

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Wikipedia for

Maps

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_of_OpenStreetMap

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History and

Stats

2004 Start of OSM

2012 OSM status

Users 825,278

Uploaded GPS points 112,101,094

Nodes 1,594,576,286

Ways 151,330,005

Relations 1575387

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OSM Wiki

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

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OSM mailing lists

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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Mapping

Parties

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“Legal”

Details

Was Licensed CC-BY-SA 2.0

Moved towards ODbl

http://www.maploser.com/2012/03/03/odbl-what-

the-heck-can-you-do-with-it/

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OSM

Features

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OSM Data

Structure

Based on the idea of key/value pairs

highway=primary

name=I66building=yes

address=123 Main Street

city=Somewhere

amenity=hospital

name=Sacred Heart

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Imagery

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Walking

Papers

http://www.walking-

papers.org/

Printable Map

Collect Data by

Writing

Scan and Upload

Edit for

OpenStreetMap

Most Any GPS Will

Work

H.O.T. purchases

Garmin eTrex with

MicroSD Cards

What is the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team?

An organization working to promote the

use of open data and volunteered

geographic information within the

humanitarian and development contexts

Incorporated as a NGO in the US Aug 2010

Responders

Aims at providinggood open baselinedata

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HOT

Package

Training Materials

Softwares

Survey Forms

Presets for Editing

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JOSM Editor

http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

Java Based OpenStreetMap Editor,

works well with sporadic connectivity

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JOSM

Presets

Simplifies Editing

Creates Editing

Forms

XML Based

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Tasking

Manager

http://tasks.hotosm.org

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Potlatch

The Editor when you go to http://www.osm.org and hit

“Edit”

Kate Chapman

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (AKA

H.O.T.)

Questions?

severin.menard@hotosm.org