How CrowdsourcingChanged Disaster
Relief Forever.
FOSS4G
8 September 2010
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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
Schuyler Erle <[email protected]>
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/