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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