AUTODESK GLOBAL MONTH OF IMPACT

The Missing Maps Mapathons

Global Month of Impact:A month long event to volunteer and

create a better world together

1300 Employees

85,000Meal Kits

60Prosthetic Hands

$180,000Raised

Last Year’s Global Month of Impact

What is Missing Maps (2 min video)

The Mapping Process

Mapping Nepal in 2016

In 2016, Autodesk employee efforts during Global Month of Impact, along with numerous other remote mappers, helped provide the map data that supported the ongoing humanitarian response in Nepal. Read more about what the Red Cross accomplished with these maps:

• The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal• 3 Ways Nepalis Are Using Crowdsourcing to Aid

in Quake Relief• OpenStreetMap responds in Nepal• Nepal Aid Workers Helped by Drones,

Crowdsourcing• Nepal earthquake. We have maps

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap

The Goal of Step One (Your Role Today)

Zoom in on

satellite image

Trace points,

lines and areas. Save work for

new “map view”.

OSM Account Creation

http://www.openstreetmap.or

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Register/login for Open Street Map account

Do not use Internet Explorer browser

Want a video tutorial? https://autodesk.box.com/s/ftina4br0gmq8675589hg3icjdn4hvsb

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Start the walkthrough

Open in-browser editor

Practice: Mapping Points, Lines and Areas

Go to a part of the world you know well to see

what you can add to the map while you practice

Map a point, line, and area.

Remember to save your work often!

Selecting Our Task

• Go to: http://tasks.hotosm.org/

• Direct links to priority areas on next slide

• Read descriptions

• Note skill level

• Select task (note: tasks cannot be reserved)

Selecting Our Task

Recommended by the Red Cross for Autodesk

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1550#task/128

Sebaco, community resiliance

Supported by American Red Cross

Goal: Reduce disaster risk and enhance

community resilience in disaster prone area

Mapping: Buildings, primary roads, waterways

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1755

Task #1755, Guinea

Supported by American Red Cross

Goal: Water, sanitation, health, public amenities in

communities hard hit by Ebola epidemic and still

vulnerable

Mapping: Roads and residential landuse areas

Special note: field work carried out by volunteers

on motorbikes, equipped with smartphone map

app and other tools

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1918#task/180

Task #1918, Bonaire

Supported by Netherlands Red Cross

Mapping: Residential roads and buildings

Goal: Assessments in preparation for tropical storms,

droughts, epidemics

http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1784#task/880

Task #1784, Kumamoto

Supported by CrisisMappers Japan

Goal: Mapping for Kumamoto earthquake

Mapping: Buildings and roads

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2016_Ecuador_earthquake

#Mapping_Priority

Mapping priorities for Ecuador earthquake response

OSM Tasking ManagerStart mapping!

Only mark “Done” if ALL features are traced Unlock the tile if you are exiting the program so

someone else can work on that tile.

Thank you for volunteering! Log your hours here:

https://autodesk.yourcause.com/