OpenStreetMap:Sahana Mapping Client

2 November 2010, Sahana Camp

Fran Boon

fran@sahanafoundation.org

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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