ICRC GIS officers - 24/08/2010Frédéric Bonifasfredericbonifas@gmail.com

OpenstreetmapYou can participate

What OpenStreetMap needs

Aerial imagery

● Lots of people from OSM are waiting for one thing : tracing over aerial imagery !

● Identifiable data : roads, landuse, high structures, damaged buildings...

● Rather fast to get vector data from these images

Example : Kyrgyzstan

Field data● People on the ground often needed for specific

data :● Landuse and roads● Street names● Points of interest (health facilities, education,

infrastructures...)

● Formats :● shapefile is the best● other possibilities : kml, gpx, pictures, sketches by

hand...

Licence questions

Aerial imagery

License agreement to allow data tracing for OSM

Two methods : ● Public WMS, available for anyone to use (eg

Haiti)● Private WMS, available on request for people

interested in tracing (eg Kyrgyzstan, Gaza)

Points of interest

● Personal knowledge of the reality● Public domain data

● No licensed data like copyrighted paper maps or Google Maps

● Example : you collect data with a GPS and then share it with OSM

Please ask !

Scenario

You want a map You have a map !

No vector dataavailable

OSM shapefilesavailable

Dataintegration

You shareyour data

OSM createsdata

Conclusion

OSM has dozens of people who waiting for one thing : mapping.

We have a lot of potential data sources.

So please ask, even now, if vector data is needed for an area !