OpenStreetMap Support for Humanitarian Community

Pierre Bland

I've been dying to talk about OpenStreetMap at the ODI, because it's an exciting Open Data topic. But first lets talk about typhoons. This is Typhoon Haiyan seen from the international space statione

OSM Digital Humanitarian Community

Haiti showed the capacity of volunteer citizens to provide through internet Crowdsource geographic data from which UN planned the humanitarian response

Typhoon Haiyan showed the capacity to scale further to respond to this major disaster

Since Haiti in 2010, the Technical volunteers organisations have matured and are now part of the Digital Humanitarian network

OSM showed again with the Typhoon Haiyan, his capacity to react to such major disasters

Haiti 2010, 640 volunteers, 1.2 million edits

Haiyan 2013, 1,600 volunteers. 4.7 million edits

Nov 8, typhoon Haiyan massive destructions in the Central island of Philippines

10 days later, Poster size printed maps delivered to IOM UN personal in Tacloban airport

The OpenStreetMap Ecosystem

Developpers and contributors meet through Internet

Map of the world edited by more then a million Volunteers

Opendata OdbL license

Open Platform, Data interchange with ArgGIS, QGIS

Rich community of OpenSource developpersMap Editors, Navigation, Extraction tools, Online maps, Data Marts

No other organization has the capacity to escalate mapping response like the OSM community does in context of emergency, free and OpenData

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

acts as a bridge between the OSM community and the Humanitarians

Coordination with UN, International agencies such as Red Cross and humanitarian NGO's

Offers various tools, learning material and services to support humanitarian organizations,

Development projects in various countries

In 2013, Humanitarian Responses for Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Syria and Philippines

Create the mapFrom Aerial Imagery

Satellite, Aerial, UAV imagery

Key factors to a rapid and effective response

- While field teams prepare to deploy, mapping is essentail for the logistic of the deployment- Key factor to rapid response and to provide pre and post-disaster mapping- International Charter (Assoc of Imagery providers), Euro ??? and HIU unit from US State Dept. collaborate to obtention of imagery- Aerial imagery and Civil Drone imagery are options that can give a rapid and flexible response, provide more precise informations- Where Bing Imagery is available, remote CrowdMapping is immediately started

Digitizing imagery provides the skeleton of OSM maps

Where Bing Imagery is available, remote OSM CrowdMapping is immediately started

In context of humanitarian response, various Satellite / Aerial imagery providers take care to provide Pre and Post-Disaster imagery.

For the Haiyan Typhoon, the OSM community participated to identify damaged buildings

For Haiyan, some Civil Drone imagery were taken. In next activations they should play a role. They can complete the imagery available, and give for smaller zones a rapid and flexible response, provide more precise informations

Free Post-Disaster Imagery for Typhoon Haiyan was obtained, this with support by groups such as DigitalGlobe /HIU, and CNES and Astrium throught the International Charter Space and Major Disasters

Field Survey and other OpenData to complete the map

Availability of OpenData is essentialAdministrative boundaries

Names of Towns / Roads

Geolocation and Names of essential structures

License problems for administrative data

Field team from various Humanitarian NGO's start to play a greater role in the geolocalisation of infrastructures

Create the Map

Priority Zones to map, Pre and Post-disaster

Mapping instructions

Coordinate the CrowdMapping effort

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/hot-yolanda-haiyan-typhoon-activation_3628#8/11.558/124.887Red : Post-disaster, blue : pre-disaster

- Identify zones to cover, Imagery availabHOT / OSM community Activation for the Haiyan Typhoon, Nov 8, 2013

This map shows grossly the affected zone. We also see the various zones remotely mapped by the OSM community from internet, coordinating via the HOT task Manager.

Tasking Manager tasks.hotosm.org

Scalability

Coordinated and systematic mapping

Monitor the progression

The Tasking Manager at http://tasks.hotosm.org is one of the tools that we developped since Haiti to better coordinate CrowdMapping.

This answers the question Where do I map. It also assures that we cover systematically various zones to map. Instructions are provided for every Job, and we can control the progression of the mapping.

OSM Edits

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-typhoon-haiyan-2013

Shows Edits made (Changeset bounding-boxes on a map)

- More then 1,600 contributors contributed coordinating with the Task Manager. This way we could respond to a particular request or use a specific image newly available.- From 82 countries- 4.8 millions of objects modified (buildings, roads, etc.)

Also watch video showing edits in Tacloban city: https://vimeo.com/80922315

Simple editing

Basically, we have an aerial image in the background from which we identify industrial and residential areas, buildings, water points, roads, etc. We simply add points and trace lines to represent the various informations observed.

The simplest way to contribute is to go to Openstreetmap.org, click on the note Button on the map, add a point, and describe the feature and name (ie school, hospital, place of worship, commerce,bank, etc.) Experimented OSM contributors will interpret this information. If you connect with an OSM account, they will have the possibility to email you for more info

Other ways to Edit / Create OpenData

Field Survey

Field Papers

GPS navigation data

Smartphones Offline applications

Ten day after Haiyan Typhoon in Philippines, nov.2013, OpenStreetMap Poster printed map were going up on the walls in the aid agency control rooms, and handed out to people driving aid delivery trucks.

http://fieldpapers.org/atlases.phpField Papers printout let's take notes to revise the map

Smartphones offer various possibilities to take notes and revise the map

http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/positron96/1FieldPaper on a tablet, in development, should offer interesting possibilities to integrate Field Survey with OSM database editing. Project to follow.

Smartphones offer new possibilities

Variety of Applications / Offline editing

Can be adapted for humanitarians

Possibility to share on a common platform

FieldPaper
on a
Tablet
to come ...

OSMTracker for Androidhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.guillaumin.android.osmtracker&hl=en

OSMAND for Androidhttp://osmand.net/en/screenshots-menu.html

OSMTrack for Apple IOShttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/osmtrack/id295625255?mt=8

OsmAnd, Route Details

OsmAnd Navigation Android

Search fo POI's

Style plugins ex.Contour lines

Products and Services

Osmose : Validation

Osmosehttp://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/?zoom=15&lat=11.24906&lon=124.99003&layers=B000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT

Overpass OSM Extract Queries

Example : Color impassable roads

To submit this Overpass Query for OSM database extract, impassable roads, part of Tacloban,Road Status on this image was still impasable Jan.26 2014

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/2gO

HOT Exports

Exports in various formats for Gis Analysis

Map Styles That correspond to your thematic

Map Styles

Tilemill editor

MapCSS Stylesheet

Various Styles for different purposes

Same styles in JOSM facilitates edition

Custom styles in JOSM can be used to highlight humanitarian infrastructures to update

Humanitarian Style : More POI's and humanitarian related objects

https://www.gfdrr.org/sites/gfdrr.org/files/3_JRC-Remote_Sensing.pdfDamage assesmentsWhat are the limits?Satellite images map products have limitations: due to spatial resolution, viewing configuration, non-optimal timing because of non-optimal atmospheric conditions (haze, clouds) due to errors in processing (e.g. geocoding) or interpretation (subjectivity) due to incompleteness, lack of reference data, etc.Port-au-Prince 2010 The underestimation of damages in satellite data compared to aerial imagery and field observations was striking

OSM Styles

Various OSM styles for various purposes

Standard
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/11.2467/125.0030

Roads only
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/11.2467/125.0030&layers=T

Humanitarian Style
http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/11.2467/125.0030&layers=H

HDM was central to Haiyan Typhoon Activation
- We highlighted the Damaged / Destroyed buildings
- HDM available for Online maps, Printed Maps, FieldPapers

Derived OSM Maps

OpenStreetmap.org

http://yolandadata.org/maps/new?layer=geonode:hospital_points_osm

http://webviz.redcross.org:8080/

Umap POI's and dynamic url

http://umap.fluv.io/en/map/tacloban_1148#16/11.2451/125.0019

-Minimalist Map (Transport map)- Damaged building overlay Dynamic url to Overpass Query : filters damaged buildings from OSM Database- Clickable POI's

Yolanda Geonode

Road, Bridge damages (extract from OSM)

http://yolandadata.org/maps/new?layer=geonode:damage_lines

Yolanda Content Management From Geonode platform

Explore, Export Maps

Crowdmap : Impact maps

Gathers infos from SMS and other sources

Helps prioritize mapping / Inform Humanitarians

DHNetwork workflows to develop with OSM

https://haiyan.crowdmap.com/

Crowdmap Crisis Event, Impact mapping

This site collected pictures of damages in this vast territory with many isolated islands.

DHNetwork workflow to buildDevelop infrastructure that can not only show data, but also contribute to create OpenData on a common platform to shareOSM basemap layer should always be offered

Provide Opendata geolocated infos to OSM

Integrate OSM Humanitarian style in these Tools

Joe Lowry CCBYSA2.0 http://flic.kr/p/hHMxee

You should see people's faces light up when we arrive with a load of OpenStreetMap posters

Dale Kunce American Red Cross

American Red Cross. Used with permission https://twitter.com/RedCross/status/401088520481042432

Paper Maps

And here's the maps in use in the Philippines. Various aid agencies decided to print map posters from OpenStreetMap.

The Red Cross can be seen here on the right doing some big printouts. They also got involved in actually contributing to the map. The British Red cross had a team of volunteers in their office here in the London, adding data following the same community processes as the rest of us.

In general we've seen more buy-in from aid agencies, and more up-front participation. Whereas in Haiti in 2010 they seemed to discover OpenStreetMap by surprise, with this response we see them going straight to OpenStreetMap, and pro-actively taking part in a process of improving the maps.

A common approch is necessary

Geolocated data should be shared.

Possibility to move from hierarchical structures to more interchange

OSM plays the role of a common platform

New Communication Networks and smarphones tools offer more flexibiliy

Some experiences to Open
the possibility for Field
teams to share data
with OpenData license

OSM Common Platform

Humanitarian community data acquisition workflows to be revised to share data with others

OSM do play this role of providing a Free, Open platform, a diversity of tools to manage and exploit data, learning material and support to humanitarian organisations.

Pierre BlandHumanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Board DirectorLeads Humanitarian Activations for HOT