Sahana has worked with the Open Street Map folks to acquire base map data / services during actual events as well as exercises. The level of integration is typically through Tiled Map Services and GeoRSS being displayed through Sahana's OpenLayers interface. <div>
<br></div><div>Some of the interesting things coming out of the Humanitarian OSM folks include the related project Walking Papers that provides something very similar to the National Grid based maps that we provided for the Red River Floods only they are bar coded in a way that allows them to be very quickly scanned back in to digitize information from hard-copy back into digital form -- a very interesting approach for quickly gathering data without computers in the field during disaster situations.</div>
<div><br></div><div>There is also a certain amount of overlap with the OpenAerial Map project which had stagnated but has some momentum and potential funding for getting things (at least discussions) back on track again. If anyone has interest in this, I recommend strongly that you join the list and read some of the archives and wiki discussions.<br>
<br></div><div>Other areas that there is a lot of work on in Sahana and Humanitarian mapping is on using SMS messaging (with geolocation if possible) to gather data. Sahana has worked at adding this capability natively as well as looking at integration with groups like Instedd and Ushaidi.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Perhaps we should look at a Humanitarian Geospatial focused meeting in the near future. I know that there were planned to be presentations at GIS/LIS on the flood response and we could likely find someone to recycle that presentation for us, or at least get folks who responded to attend for the discussion.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If humanitarian open source software is of interest to anyone on this list, I would recommend that they sign up for the Humanitarian-ICT (<a href="http://humanitarian-ict.org">http://humanitarian-ict.org</a>) community mailing list which tries to keep a broad view of the topic of Software for managing and responding to disasters.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:03 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neuhausr@bitstream.net">neuhausr@bitstream.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
David,<br>
<br>
At MN GIS/LIS, I was pretty interested by the session on the Red River<br>
flooding and the Emergency work done by MN GIS folks, so I for one think<br>
it sounds interesting. I also notice you're listed on the Humanitarian<br>
OSM Team page--is that related?<br>
<br>
Brad<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
> I sit on the Project Management Committee of Sahana, the Disaster<br>
> Management<br>
> Software that is mentioned in that thread. It has a situational awareness<br>
> component built in based off of Open Layers. The geo component of the<br>
> software is fairly basic, but if anyone is interested in a demo of the<br>
> whole<br>
> system, I'd be happy to add that to an agenda for a meeting sometime.<br>
><br>
> David<br>
><br>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:09 PM, Matthew Pettis<br>
> <<a href="mailto:matthew.pettis@gmail.com">matthew.pettis@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Another application of mapping and political cross-over, if people are<br>
>> interested...<br>
>><br>
>> <a href="http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/geo-mapping-human-rights" target="_blank">http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/geo-mapping-human-rights</a><br>
>> <<a href="http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/geo-mapping-human-rights" target="_blank">http://www.newtactics.org/en/blog/new-tactics/geo-mapping-human-rights</a>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you<br>
>> end up being governed by your inferiors.<br>
>> -- Plato<br>
>><br>
>> It is from the wellspring of our despair and the places that we are<br>
>> broken<br>
>> that we come to repair the world.<br>
>> -- Murray Waas<br>
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