crisis mapping and sinsai.info
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Crisis mappingand
Sinsai.info
Response platform for the Great Earthquake in Japan.
Hal Seki
http://www.slideshare.net/hal_sk/
Wednesday, March 7, 12
Hal Seki(@hal_sk) Geo Developer
http://jp.linkedin.com/in/halskWednesday, March 7, 12
I ♥ OpenSource!
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March 11th 18:19 p.m.
I received a mail from Hiroshi Miura, Director of OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan.
“We should start response action for the Japan Earthquake. Let’s move with supports of global team. Please join our Skype chat.”
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OpenStreetMap?
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Free wiki world map maintained by volunteer community. That creates and provides free geographic data and mapping to anyone who wants it.
OpenStreetMap
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Edit maps using several data sources like GPS logger
GPS Logger Printed maps
Satelight imagery Import other map data
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OpenStreetMap Foundation Japan
Local foundation for supporting OpenStreetMap Japan community
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OSMFJ started two activities
Crisis Mapping
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OSMFJ started two activities
Crisis Mapping
Sinsai.info
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Crisis Mapping
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Support rescue activities through mapping of disaster area.
Crisis Mapping
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More than 500 users wrote 500,000+ ways in first two months.
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Statistics of OSM editing in Japan
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Provided the map data to 防災科学技術研究所
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Crowdsourcing Reconstruction Support Platform
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The problems we focussed
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The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the earthquake.
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The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the earthquake.
• It’s difficult to find important tweets which was hidden in a lot of retweeted information.
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The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the earthquake.
• It’s difficult to find important tweets which was hidden in a lot of retweeted information.
• There were a lot of disinformation.
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The problems we focussed
• There were a lot of tweets about the earthquake.
• It’s difficult to find important tweets which was hidden in a lot of retweeted information.
• There were a lot of disinformation.• People couldn’t determine the tweet’s validity in a lot of tweets.
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The mission of sinsai.info
Provide and aggregate disaster information by formatting them using geolocation data.
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OpenStreetMap Foundation Japanの三浦さんからメンバー宛にメールがCollect disaster and reconstruct information and make them searchable them by location information.
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Pin tweets on the map!
• Pickup • Verification• Geocoding
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Number in the dots shows a number of reports in the area.
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`Report has categories.
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Users can see reports nearby specified location.
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Example report
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Example report
We are locked in a hospital, please help us.
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Example report
We are locked in a hospital, please help us.
Visitor’s comment:I called to Self Defense Force and they said they will go to the place
soon.
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Main data source is Twitter
Because there were a lot of information on the Twitter. And nobody knows about sinsai.info. We collected certain amount of information from Twitter.
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Provide report data via open API
Open Source
Open API lead open collaboration including NGO.
Open Collaboration
Open to Global
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• 12,000+ reports
• 1,000,000+ PV / first one month
• 650,000+ Visitors
• 500,000+ Unique visitors
• Most viewed from Sendai(Disaster area)
Statistics
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• Used open source platform Ushahidi.
• We installed the deployment before March 11th.
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世界中で使われている
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世界中で使われている
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世界中で使われている
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世界中で使われている
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世界中で使われている
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世界中で使われている
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世界中で使われている
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Each point represents a person's voice.
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Lessons Learned
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What problem we focus to?
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•Many of failed projects tackled to wrong problem.
What problem we focus to?
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•Many of failed projects tackled to wrong problem.
•Starting from a suitable sized problem is important.
What problem we focus to?
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•deploy quickly, get feedback.
•Needs of disaster area is always changing.
•Late output will miss the opportunity.
Speed and output
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•Sometime crowdsourcing generate great value.
•But many projects need constantly resources from NPO, government, companies.
•Open collaboration will help to make your projects sustainable.
Open collaboration
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- Done is better than perfect -
Same here for the crisis response.
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