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Andrew TurnerCTO - FortiusOne

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

What are we going to talk about?


What are we going to talk about?

Tools to enable global collaboration, humanitarian development and action


What specifically are we talking about?

• Trends, Drivers and Open Issues

• GeoCommons

• OpenStreetMap

• CrabGrass

• Digital Gazette

• Uses Haiti and Afghanistan and elsewhere

• CrisisCommons, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, ...

Lunch - Nom!

• Deep Dives


Who is @ajturner? a short autobiography


Airships


Vehicle Simulation


Astrium EADS


Vehicle Simulation


Convergence


Convergence uLocate WHERE


Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web

August 2008

By Andrew Turner & Brady ForrestPreface by Tim O’Reilly

An O’Reilly Radar Report


Geo Community


Geography is a Common Pivot Point


The role of mapsMaps Reflect & Define Reality

Waldseemüller Uniersalis CosmographiaWednesday, January 19, 2011

The role of mapsMaps Reflect & Define Reality“Americus”

Waldseemüller Uniersalis CosmographiaWednesday, January 19, 2011

Drivers

•Global, Open Internet

•Inexpensive GPS

•Mobile Devices

•“Web 2.0” - bidirectional


Trends

•Open Sharing

•Realtime Data

•Analytics

•Social Networks

•Crisis Crowds

•New sensor platforms

•‘Citizen’ Engagement


Issues

•No “Data” reporting

•Network Connectivity

•Data Overload

•Security

•Bureaucracy (DHD)

•Trust, Accuracy, Veracity


ICT4Peace advisory to UN

• Pre-planned information-sharing policies robust enough to handle severe crises in a timely manner. This includes policies to leverage crisis-related information generated from outside the UN system and the development of robust data models and data dictionaries that can be shared on demand.

• An emphasis on standards-based information capture and exchange

• Harmonisation of significant variance in agency approaches to and capacities of information management during crises, including human resource management and data-sharing policies.


Huffman’s Principles for Data Sharing

http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/09/16/huffmans-three-principles-for-data-sharing/Wednesday, January 19, 2011

http://blog.fortiusone.com/2009/09/16/huffmans-three-principles-for-data-sharing/





1.Create immediate value for anyone contributing data








2.Make contributor’s data available back to them with improvements








2.Make contributor’s data available back to them with improvements

3.Share derivative works back with the data sharing community






GeoCommons


What is GeoCommons?


What is GeoCommons?

A web-based data visualization and collaboration platform with a global community


What is GeoCommons?

A web-based data visualization and collaboration platform with a global community

Built on the GeoIQ platform


Hurricanes Katrinaand Rita


Crisis Reporting

Hurricane Katrina


26Network Effect for Data

Enterprise Data

Third Party Data

Public Data

Sensor Data

Mobile Data


Easy Data Sharing


Easy Spatial Referencing


Federated


Step By Step Mapping


Impact AnalysisEasy Analysis


Cross-collaboration

Education

Threats

Population

Health


Sensors Feeds

SMS

KML

Spreadsheet


Federation

Sensors Feeds

SMS

KML

Spreadsheet


Federation

Federation

Sensors Feeds

SMS

KML

Spreadsheet


Federation

Federation

Sensors Feeds

SMS

KML

Spreadsheet

Satellite imagery

UAV imagery


Designed for Users

Powered by Developers


developer.geoiq.com


GeoIQ Excel Toolbar


GeoIQ ArcGIS Toolbar


Story Telling & Transparency


InterAction


OpenStreetMap


What is OpenStreetMap?


A Wiki for the World

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The Cathedral


The Bazaar

flickr: mgilbir


No Way it will Work

flickr: moffi


Mapping Parties

flick: rniccolo.rigacci


http://www.flickr.com/photos/24199866@N07/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/24199866@N07/

Typical Process


Individual Mapping


Imagery Tracing


Editable Maps


Open Data importsNetherlands


OSM DC


OSM Registered Users2005 Today


Result: Year of Edits http://www.vimeo.com/2598878

http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3054501076


http://www.vimeo.com/2598878

http://www.vimeo.com/2598878



Personal Needs: OpenCycleMap

data by OpenStreetMap, maps by Andy Allan


OpenCycleMap

OpenPisteMapWednesday, January 19, 2011

Personal Needs:Urban Revitalization

flickr: zeebieWednesday, January 19, 2011

Personal Needs: Safety, Security

OpenStreetMap Palestine

crowd-sourced, country-wide mapping in 3 weeks


Routing based on Nationality


Ushahidi / SwiftRiver


What is Ushahidi?

http://github.com/ushahidiWednesday, January 19, 2011

What is Ushahidi?

A platform for reporting data collection and visualization

http://github.com/ushahidiWednesday, January 19, 2011

Ushahidi


What is SwiftRiver?

http://github.com/ushahidi/SwiftriverWednesday, January 19, 2011

What is SwiftRiver?

an open-source platform that helps users manage realtime data.

http://github.com/ushahidi/SwiftriverWednesday, January 19, 2011

CrabGrass


What is CrabGrass?

http://crabgrass.riseuplabs.org/Wednesday, January 19, 2011

What is CrabGrass?

software libre for social organizing

http://crabgrass.riseuplabs.org/Wednesday, January 19, 2011

What can CrabGrass do?

• Users, Groups, Committees, Councils, Networks

• Directory

• Permissions and Access Controls

• Home pages

• Wiki

• Blogs

• Media: Photos, Videos

• Meeting & Event Calendars

• Personal Messaging

• Bookmarking

• Task lists

• File uploads and sharing

• Forums

• Tagging

• Commenting

• Voting

• Rating

• Fully Configurable

• Extensible


Technology

• Ruby on Rails

• MySQL

• Sphinx indexing

• other: ImageMagick, OpenOffice...

• Very active development on lots of branches. 0.5.3.2 pending release

• Don’t feel bad if it’s confusing at first

http://github.com/riseuplabs/crabgrass


User Profile Pages


Groups


Networks/Chapters


Forums


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Redmine Integration

• Redmine is a Ruby on Rails project management

• Focused on software projects

• Integrated with source code repositories, issue tracking, releases, etc.


Redmine Demo


Redmine + Crabgrass


Release Roadmap


Issue Tracking


flickr: fdecomite

Emergent Patterns


Afghanistan Election Monitoring

a story of emergent solutions and relationships


“Private” Data - IED to Tracks


flickr: andycarvin


Beer for Data


Offline Web Applications


GeoWeb in a Box


Camp Roberts


More Stuff in a Box NGA Imagery/SMS/

flickr: developmentseed


Walking Papers


NGA Imagery


Walking Papers


USAID Partnership


Privacy & Security


Walking Papers


January 12, 2010


January 31, 2009


Haiti - January 12, 2010


Haiti CNIGS Office (GIS)


Community Surge


Port-au-Prince, Sheet 1 1:12,500, Edition 4-DMA, Series E935. U.S. Defense Mapping Agency, 1994 (18MB) and PDF version


http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/txu-oclc-51277879-port_au_prince1-1994.jpg

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/txu-oclc-51277879-port_au_prince1-1994.jpg

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/port_au_prince_1-haiti-city_graphic.pdf

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/americas/port_au_prince_1-haiti-city_graphic.pdf

GeoEye Imagery


Digital Globe Imagery


Damage Assessment


Needs Assessment


I am currently in Port Au Prince with the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team (USA-1) out of Fairfax, VA, USA. I wish there was a way that I can express to you properly how important your OSM files were to us.


OpenRoutingService.org


Ushahidi::Haiti http://haiti.ushahidi.com


Crowd-Sourced Translation


Sahana Haiti Hospitals


GEO-CAN>600 Engineers, 103 Organizations


Up to date, accessible dataWednesday, January 19, 2011

Fast Production CyclesWednesday, January 19, 2011

Up to date, accessible data and imageryWednesday, January 19, 2011

Situational Awareness/Common Operating Picture


Linkable, Exportable, Shareable


!Shareable


Sensors Feeds

SMS

KML

Spreadsheet

Satellite imagery

UAV imagery


World Bank Data Dissemination Project


Offline DashboardWednesday, January 19, 2011

Citizen TransparencyWednesday, January 19, 2011

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/The_Haiti_Timeline


Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (H.O.T.)


Digital Gazette


What is the Digital Gazette?



A web-based social network and data collaboration focused on engaging with

local communities



A web-based social network and data collaboration focused on engaging with

local communities

Built on CrabGrass and GeoCommons



Enable the transition from crisis to stability by engaging

the entire ecosystem


Local Knowledge


http://github.com/fortiusone/digitalgazette


Jalalabad, Afghanistan

Photo Courtesy Todd HuffmanWednesday, January 19, 2011

Social Data Cultivation

credit: Dave Warner


Local Capacity


Positive Externalities

flickr: mikel_maron - Kibera GPS TracesWednesday, January 19, 2011

Walking PapersMapKibera


A Simple Idea

How can people use technology to assist citizens and communities during time

and places of crisis?


Emergent Tools


Crisis Continuity

TsunamiElections

Earthquakes... ...


CrisisCamp Haiti

• Organized first CrisisCamp within 48 hours

• First Week: 5 Camps

• Second Week: 13 Camps in 4 Countries

• Since: 45 events in 6 Countries with approximately 1,500+ volunteers

• Video


CrisisCamp DuitamaColombia


InveneoFrom CrisisCamp...

...to Haiti in 48 hours

SOS Children

Red Cross


OpenStreetMap


Mobile Applications

• www.traduiapp.org

• Kreyol Translation

• Apple App Store Posted within 24 hours

• Available worldwide within5 days

• Machine Translation Projectfor more phrases and words


http://www.traduiapp.org

http://www.traduiapp.org

http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Chile/2010_2_27_Earthquake#Reliefoversight.org_CHILE


Next Steps

• Questions - and hopefully some answers

• Lunch! NomNom

• Deep Dive into technology

• Go where you want to...


Thank you

Andrew Turnere: [email protected]: http://fortiusone.comb: http://highearthorbit.comt: @ajturner


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