Introduction to OpenStreetMapPlan International WorkshopNov. 2012

Tim Waters

GeoIQ / GeoCommons

Esri DC R&D

Freelance developer

Topomancy LLC

OpenStreetMap VolunteerHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

tim@geothings.net@tim_waters

What is OpenStreetMap?

A web project to create a free and open map of the entire world

History

* Founded in the United Kingdom in 2004 by Steve Coast* Ordnance Survey Data was Expensive to Use* July 2005 the First Mapping Party Takes Place* All volunteers

OpenStreetMap Statistics

Over 900,000 Registered Users from All Over the World

10,000s Edit Regularly

Benefits

Up to dateFreeResponsiveCollaborative

Data Sharing

Open License

CC-BY-SA/ODbL

Credit OpenStreetMap

Share improved data to community

OpenStreetMap Schema

Folksonomy: collaboratively created created system of tagging things.

(The community creates the OpenStreetMap tagging scheming over time)

Nodes, Ways and Areas

How can you edit?

Potlatch2

walking-papers.org

Java OpenStreetMap Editor (JOSM)

What is the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team?An organization working to promote the use of open data and volunteered geographic information towards humanitarian response, disaster preparedness, and economic development.

Where We Are Working on the Ground in 2012

Remote Mapping

OSM & Mobile Data Capture

Many options

Mobile GPS
Positives Negatives

Standalone GPSScreen show track and OSM

DataloggerBattery lasts long time.

Bluetooth dataloggerCan work with smartphone

SmartphoneEditable screen

POI adding

Smartphones

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS

Blackberry, Symbion, J2me, Windows... etc

OSMTracker

http://wiki.osm.org/wiki/OSMtracker_(Android)

https://code.google.com/p/osmtracker-android/

OSM Mobile evaluations

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvC6dUAEbjPidGdpN1JjRGFKdExKMHY2YW9FU2gteWc#gid=0

Cheap
Resilient
Best?

GPS, Pen, Paper

Aerial Imagery & tracing

HOT OSM
Humanitarian Field Guide to survey

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1gmgoMKwPstJdB_eyHEWhfmDQRGxq-wADfjFBAAyX484

HOT OSM
JOSM (Java-based OSM editor) basic editing field guide

https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1EkeCp7h8yV6uTJuRMhWHcSMIQPTWIKIdXe0Bek6Agy8

Getting OSM Data for GIS

Shapefile download

Database import / export

PluginsQuantum GIS

ArcGIS

Garmin GPS export

Misc exports

Quantum GIS plugin

ArcGIS extension

http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/extensions/openstreetmap

Garmin GPS

GARMIN

Make your ownhttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin

Download ready madehttp://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download

Shapefile Export

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shapefiles

http://openstreetmapdata.com/

http://download.geofabrik.de/

Extracts - land, water, administrative, natural, points, lines, polygons etc.

Misc / Advanced

Running own database keep up to date

Custom extracts

Connect to a map renderer

Connects to spatial export tools etc

Pune Slum Case Study

Candela Sanchez

Pune - SHANKAR MAHARAJ

Pune - SHANKAR MAHARAJ

Pune - SHANKAR MAHARAJ

Ushahdi / Crowdmap.com

HAITI Case Study

Jan 2010 Earthquake

1 Data collection

2 Apply to Disaster Response

3 Reconstruction

There's 3 main stages with crisis mapping, first is data collection, second is applying the data to early days disaster responseAnd the last is reconstruction and ongoing capacity building.

Worth noting that the crisis in haiti is still ongoing.

1. Data Collection

Creation and Collection of DataMass Collaboration

The first was characteriesd by mass collaboration to create and collect data

So, what happened. A refresher

12 Jan 2010

Earlier in the Year, a very large earthquake shook the ground in haiti, near port au prince.The country was and remain quite deprived with awful conditions.Lots of people lost their lives, and many were trapped.

Day 1

OSM looked like this on the day of the earthquake.

And this was mainly responsibly by myself importing donated data from the CNGIS the mapping office of Haitian government following their previous disaster of severe flooding a year or two previously.

That office, and most of the senior staff perished in the earthquake

Day 3

3 days later, and a lot of detail was added. The activity was tremendous

Day 1

Closer in

Day 2

1 Week

By day 4, displacement camps were being added, as better up to date imagery became available

2 Weeks

And by 2 weeks after the earthquake good detailed maps were created

There was a need for shapefile extracts, and also garmin gps images, to put the maps on gps units.These files were updated every 5 minutes!

Change in how maps were used in humanitarian situations

For the first time ever we now have a set of conditions where individuals from the comfort and safety of their own home can literally help other people save lives in adisaster zone by contributing to OSM & Ushahidi

Schuyler Erle

UN Would have taken tens of thousands of pounds and years to do. OSM took 3 weeks.

It really was unique the first time that people were able to reach out, remotely, from their armchairs even, and make a difference

A source from a UN agency said that what would have taken a comercial mapping company tens of thousands if not millions and years to do, OSM too 3 weeks.

DigitalGlobe, Google, NOAA,World Bank (ImageCAT GFDRR),GeoEye, SpotImage, CIA

Geoeye

You can trace this imagery in OSM

Lots of imagery was provided from multiple sources, all for free and a lot of them were, for the first time, allowed for OSM to trace over them

High level imagery timely released under anattribution only license

Raw imagery processed into tiles to be made available in OSM editors (potlatch,merkator & josm)Hundreds traced 24/7 over base map features, humanitarian features (camps) & alsodamagesIncentive for sharing restricted vector data setsFoster quality of field collection activites

Google//GeoEye DigitalGlobeWorld Bank(ImageCAT / GFDRR), SpotImageCIA

Here's some of the footprints of the imagery given.

There were also some UAV oblique imagery.There was the need to tile that imagery up so it can be traced, used as backdrops, for agencies to analyse.

The haiti crisis map, served by telascience, and mainly set up by chris schmidt sprang to life and was the primary place to go for tiles and imagery.

Myself, with my client at the New York Public Libray deployed an instance of my public domain map warper application to rectify and serve the Library's collection of maps for the region some of the only good detail maps available

We also rectified the GeoEye imagery, which was misregistered.

Day 1

So day 1 again

Day 28

And a month later

Satellite and aerial imagery was made available.

Volunteers (>700) marshalled that imagery and made it usable.

Volunteers traced the imagery into OSM.

Volunteers prepared extracts of OSM for reuse.

In summary for the collection part

1 Data collection

2 Apply to Disaster Response

3 Reconstruction

The data had to be used

Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Teamwish you could see their faces 'light up' when I take their GPS unit and tell them that I'm going to give them street level detail maps. Mapaction - training and loading up. Most SAR are firefighters.

Immediately it was used on GPS devices the extracts were produced and were loaded up onto the devices.

For the first time, responders had good level street maps to guide them.Mapaction the UK based mapping organisation made good use of this service.

The fairfax county urban search and rescue team wrote and expressed their thanks.

Tagging Earthquake Damage

earthquake:damage: collapsed_building earthquake:damage: spontaneous_camp earthquake:damage: damaged_infrastructure earthquake:damage: landslide

Mappers adapted quickly to tag earthquake damage of buildings for example

Damage Assessment

In order to help damage assessment efforts

Distributing Food & Water NEED to map any spontaneous camps appearing in the imagery Mapping requirement mentioned by United Nations Ofce of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) 69 Bearthquake:damage: spontaneous_camptourism: camp_site refugee: yes

The UNOCHA expressed an urgent need to map the spontanous camps that sprang up, and the mappers were able to instantly add the camps that they saw.

And the NGO was able to give food to the camps

Obstacle

Routing OpenRouteServiceDont even bother with GMaps!

Routing was crucial particularly when roads were blocked.

ORS, from university of bonn, produced a special haiti routing application which enabled people to draw on that map blockages and obstacles, whilst also reading the osm data to see if there were obstacles recorded

1 Data collection

2 Apply to Disaster Response

3 Ongoing crisis & recovery

The crisis is ongoing the rainy season will start soonAnd theres a focus on increasing OSM work

The rains increase the likelhood of floods, disease and landslides

DeploymentsTheres been 3 deployments by osmers to Haiti - Nicolas, pictured, is currently out there with Kate ChapmanIn the box are printers, GPS units, laptops.Their mission is

The gis dept, the CNGIS is coming back online, (as it was destroyed) but some of the staff are learing OSM and taking ownership

The guys are doing lots of training with many different actors, and are seeing lots of enthusiasm

tim@geothings.net@tim_waters

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