Data Collaboration During Crisis: Something Old and Something New

Kate Chapmant: @wonderchooke: kate@geocommons.com

Data Collaboration During Crisis: Something Old and Something New

Haiti

Traditional Responders

Volunteer Technologists

OpenStreetMap

Courtesy John Crowley

OpenStreetMap

Before AfterCC-BY-SA OpenStreetMap and Contributors 2010

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/

University of Texas Map Room

Map Warper

Without a doubt, OpenStreetMap has

helped save lives.

MapAction

Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team Using OpenStreetMap in Haiti

Ushahidi

GeoCommons

CrisisMappers

• Data Sharing• Collaboration• Analysis• Coordination

AnalysisMap Courtesy of Jim Malone

My analysis although very incomplete indicates that high hazard exists for many, many camps with impact to 10's of thousands of survivors in the event of a storm surge associated with a tropical storm or tsunami,

I am very interested in having my work get into the right hands so need on the ground contacts with Haitian leadership and Haitian governmental agencies.

Jim Malone via CrisisMappers Google Group (3/2/2010)

Talbot Brooks – Delta State University 3/2/2010

Collaboration Space Between U.S. Department of Defense and

Other Responders

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Utilize the tools and techniques of OSM for humanitarian response and economic development

http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/

Courtesy Andrew Turner

Photo Courtsey Todd Huffman

Hardware HOT Kits

Photo Courtesy Andrew Turner

Walking Papers

Editor Presets

Training

Geolocation of Internally Displaced Persons

Information Kiosks

Comunite OpenStreetMap de Haiti

Gulf Oil Spill

Image Courtesy Louisiana Bucket Brigade

http://grassrootsmapping.org/guide/

Courtesy Todd Huffman

http://digitalgazette.org

http://github.com/fortiusone/digitalgazette

Roads Imported

What’s Next?

Traditional Analytics

Analyst

Data

Data

Data

Report

Report

Report

Decision Maker

Make Analytics Easy(Everyone likes pictures)

Make Terms Easy(But allow the deep dive)

Make Collaboration Easy

Make Results Traceable

Make Results Extendable

Analyst

Data

Data

Data

Information

Information

Information

Analyst

Key Conditions for Collaborative Analysis

Make it:• Easy• Traceable• Sharable• Recognize• Improvable

Kate Chapmant: @wonderchooke: kate@geocommons.com

Thanks!