1. Openstreetmap
Humanitarian OSM Team
HOT
ICRC GIS officers - 24/08/2010
Frédéric Bonifas
fredericbonifas@gmail.com

2. What is HOT ?

3. HOT ?
« The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
[H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles
and activities of open source and open data
sharing towards humanitarian response and
economic development. »

4. Objectives
● Connecting point between humanitarian and
open mapping communities
● Remote data creation
● Collection and organization of existing data
sources
● Deployments to the field possible
● Distribution point for free data

5. Structure
● On-going process to create a legal structure
● HOT now incorporated as non-profit in the USA
● 5 Board members
● Membership on nomination

6. Remote mapping

7. Example : Kismaayo, Somalia

8. Example : Kismaayo, Somalia

9. Example : Kismaayo, Somalia

10. Example : Kismaayo, Somalia

11. Example : Kismaayo, Somalia

12. Case study : Haiti

13. High resolution imagery
Providers :
Google, NOAA, World Bank, DigitalGlobe,
GeoEye, SpotImage, CIA

14. Public Domain maps

15. Day 1

16. Day 3

17. Now
>700 contributors

18. Day 1 Day 2
Day 7 Day 14

19. Specific tagging
earthquake:damage = collapsed_building
earthquake:damage = damaged_infrastructure
earthquake:damage = landslide
earthquake:damage = spontaneous_camp

20. Camps mapping

21. Camps rendering

22. Custom routing
Obstacle

23. Shapefiles

24. Garmin maps

25. Mobile phones : day 4

26. And now ?
Five deployments to Haiti
Audience :
● UN and international responders
● Haitian government
● Civil society
Activities :
● Surveying, editing and training
● Data imports
● Help to use OSM ressources

27. Case study : Kyrgyzstan

28. Process
22 June 3 Aug 3 Aug Today
20 people tracing Data
Landsat Long wait Tech
Osh and Bazar-Korgon used !
UNOSAT e-geos
authorization
Request to UNOSAT WMS set up,
Support from ICRC access on demand

29. Tracing

30. Adding value
Several sources :
● Various websites, eg Osh University
● Flickr geolocalised pictures under compliant license
● Cadastre map for Bazar-Korgon

31. Result