Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: Putting Vulnerable People on the Map

1:OpenStreetMap
2:Humanitarian OpenstreetMap Team (HOT)
3:Padang, Indonesia
4:Missing Maps
5:Getting involved

"Wikipedia + GPS"
or
"Google Maps that anyone can edit & download"

A collaberative map of the world: A database of real life things

(that's not really like Wikipedia or GMaps at all)

Some users of OpenStreetMap:
foursquare
Pintrest
Flickr
cycle.travel
Le Monde
Evernote
Financial Times
National Park Service
Strava
GitHub
Nestoria
Craigslist
The LA Times
The Washington Post

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team applies the principles of open source and open data sharing for humanitarian response and economic development
hotosm.org

HOT is:
A membership led organisation
Registered as a US not-for-profit
Active across the globe in both funded and unfunded projects
Empowered by thousands of volunteers

(put briefly)
We provide maps for first responders and humanitarian workers

We do have people physically on the ground,
We do undertake paid projects,
but...

We can only do our work with the support of volunteers contributing remotely

2009 Israel / Gaza conflict
2009 Philippines Tropical storm Ondoy
2010 Haiti Earthquake
2011 Horn of Africa famine
2012 Indonesia Risk modelling
2012 USA Hurricane Sandy
2013 Syria Humanitarian crisis
2013 Philipines Typhoon Haiyan
2014 West Africa Ebola Response
2015 Nepal Earthquake

Support from partners: Imagery, data exports, map renderings, publicity

Padang, West Sumatra:
2009 earthquake killed over 1,100,
300,000 buildings damaged or destroyed.
300,000 people currently in tsunami innundation zones,
800,000 people currently at risk

1,017 individual mapping tasks
completed by 81 remote volunteers

Your task is to trace all roads and buildings in the square assigned. In a busy city centre location, this could take an hour or more, but some squares are less busy.

Please use source=digitalglobe for any features you add.

Collecting the additional data required for disaster modelling

September 2012:
on the ground training with BNPB, the national disaster prevention agency, BPBD, the provincial disaster management agency, and Padang University students

Partnership founded by American Red Cross, British Red Cross, HOT, MSF to "map the most vulnerable places in the world"

Building on the strengths of the organisations involved to crowdsource maps for the people that need them

A great deal of HOT is nebulous in structure, and volunteer led,
Traditional aid agencies are more hierarchical, have access to more traditional funding sources, and want map data

Missing Maps connects people with time to donate to aid organisations that require maps

To the mappers Missing Maps provides direction, training and encouragement (sometimes pizza). Missing Maps makes mapping social

To the aid agencies Missing Maps provides access to OpenStreetMap and the raw data available there

Non mapping tasks:
Legal assistance,
Health & Safety,
communications & the press,
software development,
funding