1. ICCM 2012 - Tech Training
OpenStreetMap
Severin Menard
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (AKA H.O.T.)

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Wikipedia for
Maps

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History and
Stats
2004 Start of OSM
2012 OSM status
Users 825,278
Uploaded GPS points 112,101,094
Nodes 1,594,576,286
Ways 151,330,005
Relations 1575387
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/History_of_OpenStreetMap

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OSM Wiki
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org

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OSM mailing lists
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

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Mapping
Parties

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“Legal”
Details
Was Licensed CC-BY-SA 2.0
Moved towards ODbl
http://www.maploser.com/2012/03/03/odbl-what-
the-heck-can-you-do-with-it/

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OSM
Features

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OSM Data
Structure
Based on the idea of key/value pairs
highway=primary building=yes
name=I66 address=123 Main Street
city=Somewhere
amenity=hospital
name=Sacred Heart

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Imagery

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Walking
Papers
Printable Map
Collect Data by
Writing
Scan and Upload
Edit for
OpenStreetMap
http://www.walking-
papers.org/

12. Most Any GPS Will
Work
H.O.T. purchases
Garmin eTrex with
MicroSD Cards

13. What is the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team?
An organization working to promote the
use of open data and volunteered
geographic information within the
humanitarian and development contexts
Incorporated as a NGO in the US Aug 2010

14. Responders
Aims at providing
good open baseline
data

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HOT
Package
Training Materials
Softwares
Survey Forms
Presets for Editing

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JOSM Editor
Java Based OpenStreetMap Editor,
works well with sporadic connectivity
http://josm.openstreetmap.de/

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JOSM
Presets
Simplifies Editing
Creates Editing
Forms
XML Based

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Tasking
Manager
http://tasks.hotosm.org

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Potlatch
The Editor when you go to http://www.osm.org and hit
“Edit”

20. Questions?
Kate Chapman
severin.menard@hotosm.org
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (AKA
H.O.T.)