how crowdsourcing changed disaster relief forever
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In the tragic aftermath of the earthquake in Port-au-Prince in January 2010, members of the OpenStreetMap and OSGeo communities rallied to produce geographic data that directly assisted humanitarian aid workers in the rescue of disaster victims.TRANSCRIPT
How CrowdsourcingChanged Disaster
Relief Forever.
FOSS4G
8 September 2010
(time machine sound)
FOSS4G2008
bestconference
bestconferenceallyear
bestconferenceeveryyear
youareawesome
yoursoftwareis awesome
yoursoftwareis useless
withoutdata
data
(meanwhile, backin 2010...)
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“Crowdsourcing”
Coase's Penguin
YochaiBenkler
YochaiBenkler
Ronald Coase
YochaiBenkler
Ronald Coase
Free Software
Commons-BasedPeer Production
Commons-BasedPeer Production
● Non-monetary motivation
Commons-BasedPeer Production
● Non-monetary motivation● Discrete, multi-sized pieces
Commons-BasedPeer Production
● Non-monetary motivation● Discrete, multi-sized pieces● Low-cost integration
“Crowdsourcing”
12 January 201016:53 (GMT-5)
9,000,000people in
Haiti
3,000,000 affected
“there will be between 100,000 and 200,000 dead in total, although we will never know the exact number.”
Centre National de l'Information Géo-Spatiale
(CNIGS)
12 hours later...
TelaScience
HaitiCrisisMap.org
275 editors
500,000 objects edited
600 editors
1,000,000 objects edited
“... the best source of transportation information that we have for Haiti … everybody is using OpenStreetMap.”
- UN OCHA aid worker
“We used OpenStreetMap on a daily basis... Usually, it is impossible to get this information.”
- UNOSAT technical staff
“I wish you could see [the team's] faces light up when I ... tell them that I'm going to give them street level detail maps.”
- Fairfax County, VirginiaSAR team leader
“Without a doubt, OpenStreetMap has helped to save lives.”
- MapAction coordinator
“Crowdsourcing”
FAIL?
(time machine sound)
GIS and the Neogeographer
GIS is ...● Analytical● Precise● Deliberate● Money is at stake● Lives are at stake
GIS and the Neogeographer
Neogeography isn'tmuch like that
at all.
GIS and the Neogeographer
Neogeography is...● “Mashups”● “Web 2.0”● “Red Dot Fever”● Hacks● Imprecise● Fast
(meanwhile, backin 2010...)
FAIL?
yoursoftwareis useless
withoutdata
(time machine sound)
(meanwhile, backin 2010...)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Team
mapkibera.org
“No map of the world is worth a look if the land of Utopia isn't shown there.”
If you have worked on...
GDAL
MapServer
Mapnik
GeoServer
PostGIS
TileCache
OpenLayers
… then you have helped save lives.
How CrowdsourcingChanged Disaster
Relief Forever.
How You Changed Disaster
Relief Forever.
Schuyler Erle@[email protected]
With special thanks to:Stuart GillErica HagenMikel MaronJesse RobbinsChristopher SchmidtRobert Soden
Tom BuckleyKate ChapmanNicolas ChaventSteve CoastErdem ErginGalen Evans
http://hot.openstreetmap.org/