Mapping
• Overlay
• Import
• Export
…including Offline…
OpenStreetMap
• “Wikipedia of Maps”
• Collaboratively-edited:Participatory Mapping
• Free-form tagging
What about Google?
• Restrictive License– Images only – no source Vectors– Cannot access Offline
• Only covers the areas of commercial interest to Google
• Cannot develop new tags / rendering
• Doesn’t respond fast enough in the event of a Disaster
Haiti• High-resolution Satellite Imagery
available quickly (26 hrs)• OpenStreetMap volunteers used this & old
printed maps to quickly cover Port-au-Prince
• These were made available as basemaps on handheld GPS
Humanitarian
• HOT: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Teamavailable for Tracing & Field Deployments(focus on Training)– Kibera slum, Nairobi– Haiti– Philippines
• Humanitarian Data Model
Offline usage
Garmin Android
iPhone
•Local Server– Performance
– Save bandwidth costs(e.g. Satellite, such as BGAN)
Walking Papers
• Print a map of current status
• Draw on this map
• Scan Map in
• Upload
• Trace over it
Vietnam?
http://www.openstreetmap.org
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