General presentation about the HOT project in Malawi funded by GFDRR

1. OpenStreetMap (OSM) community mapping
for Flood Preparedness in Lower Shire, Malawi
30/07/2014
Severin Menard
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (AKA H.O.T.)

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OpenStreetMap is a web project aiming at creating a map of the entire world,
accessible, free and downloadable for anyone.
It has been started in 2004 by a student from UK.
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What is OpenStreetMap?
www.osm.org
It is based on the joint action of thousands of contributors working voluntarily.
Anyone can participate. +150,000 users created more than 2 billion nodes as of today.
The ongoing OSM contributions can be followed on http://live.openstreetmap.fr/

3. OSM focuses on all the visible, physical objects
like: roads, buildings, land uses, facilities (health,
education..) shops, industries, water and
sanitation, natural spaces... but also not visible
like administrative boundaries or transportation
lines.
OSM does not store information about
populations or sensitive data.
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Mapping any feature existing in the field,
visible or not

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OSM is a free map,
not submitted to political constraints
Example in China where OSM has no random offset

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“Legal” Details
Was Licensed CC-BY-SA 2.0
Moved towards ODbL
Kate Chapman's article about OdbL:
http://www.maploser.com/2012/03/03/odbl-what-the-heck-can-you-do-with-it/

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OSM governance
The ecosystem of the OSM community
Citizens
Associations
Local governments (ex: BNPB, the National Disaster Management Agency in
Indonesia)
NGOs
International Organizations (UN, WB, USAID, AUSAid)
Academia
Private actors:
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Microsoft, Foursquare
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Cloudmade, Geofabrik, Camptocamp, MapBox
The growth of the OSM project is fostered by
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OpenStreetMap Foundation & local Chapters
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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team for Humanitarian/Development contexts

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OSM Wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

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http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo
OSM mailing lists (geographic, thematic)

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La cartographie Collaborative
Idea (same as Wikipedia): A large
number of individuals contributing
together will tend to create high
quality data.
Free mapping and quality
● Validation tools within editor
Different kind of practises and
tools strengthen this:
● Quality control tools over an area
● Easy access to each step of the
history of every object
● Easy access to all the
contributions of every mapper
● Possibility to revert any bad
contribution

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Quality assurance in OpenStreetMap :
validation tools for users within the editors

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Quality assurance in OpenStreetMap :
Specific checking services
Eg: Keepright!

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The complete history of every object is accessible

13. History
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It is possible to know what has been updated
recently over an area

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It is possible to know who are
the active contributors in an area

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OpenStreetMap and humanitarian data:
since the Haiti Earthquake in 2010
Port-au-Prince on OSM,
January 12, 2010
Port-au-Prince on OSM,
28 days later
Within a few days, the response of the OSM community to map the affected areas has
been intensive, as seen in this video.

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A new interest from the humanitarian
organizations to work with the virtual, technical
communities

17. Coordination
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HOT is part of the Digital Humanitarian Network
http://digitalhumanitarians.com

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Free mapping and open data, a new
humanitarian field
Humanitarian/
Development
organizations
A NGO has been created in August 2010 to create a bridge between the
community of OSM contributors and the humanitarian and development
stakeholders.
An organization working to promote the use of open data and volunteered
geographic information within the humanitarian and development contexts
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team activate a response to quickly provide
baseline data to the humanitarian stakeholders.
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team also works or worked on field projects
in Indonesia (AusAID), Haiti (USAID), Senegal (IOF), Burundi, CAR, Chad,
Kenya (DG ECHO), in order to both create baseline data and build up local
capacities by training future trainers to OSM techniques.

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OSM Community Mapping in the Lower Shire
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/osm_community_mapping_for_flood_preparedness_in_
From late July to late September, a team of 3 HOT contractors will carry out a project in
Malawi whose main aim is to achieve a Community Mapping Exercise for the Lower Shire,
tin the two flood-prone districts, Chikwawa and Nsanje. The objectives are as follow:
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Hold a series of meetings and training sessions on open data and community mapping,
engaging government Departements, university students (especially from the Polytechnic
School in Blantyre), NGOs and civil society
● Apply the training by collecting geospatial data in the field in the two most flood prone
districts of Malawi (Chikhwawa and Nsanje), edit and upload it in partnership with the OSM
worldwide community that has already shown it huge impact when mapping on imagery or
editing field collected data with Field Papers
● Explain how to host the data on the Malawi Open Spatial Data Portal (MASDAP) and use it
effectively, especially by holding a training on the INASAFE tool to perform contingency
planning with the OSM data, as already made elsewhere, especially in Indonesia
● Identify and support community mobilizers to ensure sustainability of the outcomes, and
make the community autonomous, able to update and enhance the OSM data, use it when
crisis arises, and link with the local disaster management authorities and the OSM
worldwide community.

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OSM Community Mapping in the Lower Shire
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/projects/osm_community_mapping_for_flood_preparedness_in_
The time frame is as follows:
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Week 1 (starting July 29): meetings with stakeholders in Lilongwe
● Week 2 (starting August 4): OSM training and MASDAP/OSM sessions in Lilongwe
● Week 3 (starting August 11): OSM training in Blantyre, Polytechnic School
● Weeks 4 and 5 (starting August 18): OSM field community mapping in Chikwawa district
● Weeks 6 and 7 (starting September 1): OSM field community mapping in Nsanje district
● Week 8 (starting September 15): InaSafe training in Lilongwe

21. Contributing to OSM:
1 Mapping over Imagery

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Contributing to OSM: mapping over Imagery
Bing allows the OpenStreetMap contributors to trace over all its imagery.

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Java Based OpenStreetMap Editor
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/
Can be easily enhanced, many plugins, works well with sporadic connectivity

24. Humanitarian benefit:
Baseline data from the crowd
in crisis contexts

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Coordinating tool: the OSM Wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/

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Coordinating tool: the Tasking Manager
http://tasks.hotosm.org/

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The outcome: a detailed baseline data

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Data Export tool in various GIS formats:
HOT Exports
http://export.hotosm.org/

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If a crisis arises, please do not hesitate to request
a Rapid Mapping from the HOT Community
hot@openstreetmap.org

30. Contributing to OSM:
2 Field mapping

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Contributing to OSM: field mapping,
Mapping Parties

32. Most Any GPS Will Work
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Tools to contribute in OSM:
GPS devices

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Tools to contribute in OSM:
HOT too kits

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Tools to contribute in OSM:
HOT too kits

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Tools to contribute in OSM:
Walking of Field Papers
http://walking-papers.org/ or http://fieldpapers.org/
Printable Map
Collect Data by Writing
Scan and Upload
Edit for OpenStreetMap

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Tools to contribute in OSM:
Survey forms fitting humanitarian
data models (ex: UNDIT for roads)

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Tools to contribute in OSM:
Editors for smartphones
OsmTracker
- Routing
- Pedestrian
- Edits/Bugs
- Edits/Bugs
& transports
Vespucci
- light online editor
- online
- Edits/Bugs

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Training materials: LearnOSM. for Beginners
to Advanced Mappers or Trainers
http://learnosm.org

39. Humanitarian benefit:
field collected data

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Building mapping capacities
within the local communities

41. Field mapping in urban areas
Ex: Limonade, Haiti

42. Field mapping in urban areas
Ex: Limonade, Haiti

43. Field mapping in rural areas
Ex: Limonade, Haiti

44. Field mapping in rural areas
Ex: Limonade, Haiti

45. Field mapping in refugee camps
Ex: Gasorwe, Burundi
(in partnership with UNHCR)

46. Contributing to OSM:
3 Importing existing open data

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A documented, reviewed process
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import
An official agreement
signed by the owner
A documented import process
monitored by a skilled Import
Working Group

48. Humanitarian benefits:
no loss over the time, easy access,
living updatable data, avoids duplicates

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Various organizations already released datasets
● UN-JLC (Sudan, Haiti)
● UN-FAO Africover
● UNOSAT (Zaatari camp, Jordania)
● UNICEF (Health, Education,
Watsan, Central African Republic)
● WRI (Landuses, Central African
Republic)

50. 4 Tools and services
for preparedness or crisis response

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OpenStreetMap services:
a specific humanitarian rendering for OSM

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OpenStreetMap services:
Walking of Field Papers
http://walking-papers.org/ or http://fieldpapers.org/

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OpenStreetMap services:
Automatic Town Maps
http://maposmatic.org/

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OpenStreetMap services:
Maps for GPS devices

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OpenStreetMap services:
Maps for older GPS devices

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OpenStreetMap services:
Maps for smartphones
OsmAND
- Routing
- Pedestrian
- Edits/Bugs
- Edits/Bugs
& transports

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OpenStreetMap services:
Routing Tools

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OpenStreetMap services:
Thematic maps
http://www.itoworld.com

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OpenStreetMap services:
Customizable Point of Interest Maps
http://www.flosm.de/en/poi-map.html

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HOT Export job covering all Malawi
http://export.hotosm.org/en/jobs/4843

61. InaSAFE Introduction
InaSAFE is a free software that produces realistic natural hazard impact
scenarios for better planning, preparedness and response activities.

62. Realistic Disaster Scenario informing Contingency
Planning

63. InaSAFE
Concept
www.inasafe.org

64. Sourcing hazard information
Communities
frequent
events only
Communities
frequent
events only
Previous
Hazard
footprint
Previous
Hazard
footprint
UniversityUniversity Local
Government
Local
Government
National
science
agency
National
science
agency
Hazard in InaSAFE refers to a single disaster scenario

65. Questions?
severin.menard@hotosm.org
Slideshows?
slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/