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Crisis mapping and Sinsai.info
1. Crisis mapping
and
Sinsai.info
Response platform for the Great
Earthquake in Japan.
Hal Seki
http://www.slideshare.net/hal_sk/
Wednesday, March 7, 12
2. Hal Seki(@hal_sk)
Geo Developer
http://jp.linkedin.com/in/halsk
Wednesday, March 7, 12
4. March 11th 18:19 p.m.
I received a mail from Hiroshi Miura,
Director of OpenStreetMap
Foundation Japan.
We should start response action
for the Japan Earthquake. Let s
move with supports of global
team. Please join our Skype chat.
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6. OpenStreetMap
Free wiki world map maintained by volunteer
community. That creates and provides free
geographic data and mapping to anyone
who wants it.
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7. Edit maps using several data sources like
GPS logger
GPS Logger Printed maps
Satelight imagery Import other map data
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8. OpenStreetMap
Foundation Japan
Local foundation for supporting
OpenStreetMap Japan community
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18. The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the
earthquake.
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19. The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the
earthquake.
• It s difficult to find important tweets
which was hidden in a lot of retweeted
information.
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20. The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the
earthquake.
• It s difficult to find important tweets
which was hidden in a lot of retweeted
information.
• There were a lot of disinformation.
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21. The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the
earthquake.
• It s difficult to find important tweets
which was hidden in a lot of retweeted
information.
• There were a lot of disinformation.
• People couldn t determine the tweet s
validity in a lot of tweets.
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22. The mission of sinsai.info
Provide and aggregate disaster
information by formatting them
using geolocation data.
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23. `
Collect disaster and reconstruct
OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan
information and make them
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searchable them by location
information.
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24. Pin tweets on the map!
• Pickup
• Verification
• Geocoding
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25. `
Number in the dots shows a
number of reports in the area.
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26. `
Report has categories.
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27. `
Users can see reports nearby
specified location.
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29. Example report
We are locked in a hospital, please
help us.
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30. Example report
We are locked in a hospital, please
help us.
Visitor’s comment:
I called to Self Defense Force and
they said they will go to the place
soon.
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31. Main data source is Twitter
Because there were a lot of
information on the Twitter. And
nobody knows about sinsai.info. We
collected certain amount of
information from Twitter.
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32. Provide report data via open API
Open Source
Open API lead open collaboration including NGO.
Open Collaboration
Open to Global
http://www.flickr.com/photos/misswired/440919666/sizes/l/
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33. Statistics
• 12,000+ reports
• 1,000,000+ PV / first one month
• 650,000+ Visitors
• 500,000+ Unique visitors
• Most viewed from Sendai
(Disaster area)
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47. What problem we focus to?
• Many of failed projects
tackled to wrong problem.
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48. What problem we focus to?
• Many of failed projects
tackled to wrong problem.
• Starting from a suitable
sized problem is important.
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49. Speed and output
•deploy quickly, get feedback.
•Needs of disaster area is
always changing.
•Late output will miss the
opportunity.
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50. Open collaboration
• Sometime crowdsourcing
generate great value.
• But many projects need
constantly resources from NPO,
government, companies.
• Open collaboration will help to
make your projects sustainable.
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51. - Done is better than perfect -
Same here for the
crisis response.
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