Utilizing OpenStreetMap to Address Impacts of Changing

Climate

Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

!Dongpo Deng

2014. 10. 01

2014 The Climate Change Adaptation Partnership Workshop

OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap is a web project aiming at creating a map of the entire world, accessible, free and downloadable for anyone.

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OpenStreetMap

2010 Haiti earthquake• The power of crowd

Before earthquake 28 days later

Source: Mikel Maron 2010

What do we learn from OSM?

• Open

• Open Data, open sources

• Re-use

• Collaboration

• Wiki-like map editing

• Crowdsourcing

• TimBL: Grassroots remapping of the world

Structured and unstructured Geo-Information

Formal GI Informal GI

User Generated Geo ContentInstitutional GI

informal UGGC

Can social media use to eliminate efforts for scientific data collection?

Hateful messages in Twitter

Geography of Hate

http://users.humboldt.edu/mstephens/hate/hate_map.html中⽂文介紹 http://geocyber.org/blog/?p=557

Safecast

Mobile+Geiger counter

Source:http://blog.safecast.org/

Safecast a global project to empower people with data, primarily by mapping radiation levels and building a sensor network, enabling people to contribute and freely use the data collected.

http://goo.gl/V1G5h

Radiation measurements from Safecast

Quake Catcher Network, QCNqcn.stanford.edu/

BeeID project• Bee disappearance

https://www.flickr.com/groups/beeid

• 5⾦金四

http://www.facebook.com/groups/roadkilled/

6370 members updated by 2014/09/29

The growth of data in Reptile Road Mortality

Management of the crowdsourced data

Phenology and climate changeCherry trees bloomed

in wrong season

http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/local/paper/815256

Cherry blossoms in photo sharing platform (Flickr)

Spatial distribution of cherry blossoms

Japan Weather Association forecasted cherry blossoms

http://www.jwa.or.jp/news/2014/02/post-000263.html

Social media for watching climate change

http://ecoresearch.net/climate/

Thank you for your attentions! !

Questions? !

dongpo@iis.sinica.edu.tw

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