WikiProject Haiti/Earthquake map resources

OpenStreetMap has fantastic map coverage of the worst hit cities of Port-Au-Prince and Carrefour, and the neighbouring countryside thanks to the Haiti earthquake response mapping project. Using the free data, OpenStreetMap developers and others around the web have created a set of earthquake map resources in addition to our basic online map.

Uses of OpenStreetMap data by crisis responders

People on-the-ground in Haiti (and related organisations) are using (or used) our maps :

• Thanks message from Colombian Mission in Haiti. (2010-02-10)

• "This is where OpenStreetMap is a godsend" in How to Deploy Long-Distance WiFi in Haiti (2010-02-10) by Inveneo, an NGO whose mission is connecting those who need it most, on how they were able to bring high-speed Internet access - critical communication capacity - to eleven relief agency locations with minimal equipment and installation time.

• On 13/01/2010 ITHACA and WFP published their damage assessment of Port-au-Prince using OSM road data.
  • Special session on mapping the disaster during the Haiti Emergency at the GI4DM 2010 Conference
    See subpage GI4DM2010

• OpenStreetMap renderings on Garmin GPS receivers by Colombian search and rescue operators - "Many thanks Freddy. Very timely maps of Haiti that sent me to the Garmin. I went down and installed the GPS in our search and rescue teams. OSM undoubtedly be a great help to our response teams, especially those going to move to rural areas." via ouɐɯnH (2010-01-15)

• Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team Using Garmin downloads. Message of thanks.

• Unitar / UNOSAT use OpenStreetMap street data in their damage report

• GDACS use OSM street data in their reports

• JRC use OSM street data in their report

• "I'm told OSM is on the big monitors at SOUTHCOM." unofficial report can anyone confirm?

• On 18/91/2010 ITHACA and WFP released maps for Gressier, Jacmel and Leogane using "roads, places, natural elements and assessments" from OpenStreetMap.

• NOAA's Environmental Response Management Application ERMA

• The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (http://www.fao.org/emergencies/country_information/list/latinamerica/haiti_earthquake/en/) uses OSM data in its interactive tool, the GIEWS Workstation (http://fenix.fao.org:8080/fenix-web/org.fao.fenix.web.modules.haiti.Haiti/Haiti.html?country=108)

• The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in the Haiti Earthquake 2010 page of its OneResponse web portal (http://oneresponse.info/Disasters/Haiti/Pages/default.aspx) lists the OSM Haiti Project WIki as a resource (Social Media Links category) for the responding community. "Basically it's the best source of transportation information that we have for Haiti" says Catherine from OCHA. video blog

• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Remarks on Internet Freedom "The technology community has set up interactive maps to help us identify needs and target resources"

• Kjeld Jensen, Red Cross (IFRC): "Hello guys, I just wanted to let you know that your work on improving the Haiti maps is really appreciated here. A few days ago I installed a version on my Garmin Oregon GPS and the result is impressive. It has already saved me and my driver from getting lost twice, and the alternative would have been long delays. In the coming days I will try to update our Red Cross relief GPS receivers with your map.

Again thanks a lot guys, we are really running fast here in Haiti trying to help the people here, and your work makes it easier. Keep up the good work!"

• Jihad Abdalla from UNICEF (http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers/msg/54a9be63091dbab9): "Many thanks to all crisismappers for great contributions, you made my life much easier, since I'm one man show here...Million thanks."

Other earthquake related websites using our maps :

• Atlas compiled by the Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies at Delta State University used street data from openstreetmap.org
• flickr.com - the massive photo sharing site switched to using OpenStreetMap in the area for geolocated photo displays.
• http://haiti.ushahidi.com/ - plotting "reports" from the ground in on a map and over time, with easy SMS and other input channels.
• MapAction (http://mapaction.org) use OpenStreetMap for some of the Haiti resources e.g.
• Information Management & Mine Action Programs (iMMAP) (http://www.immap.org/index.php) use OpenStreetMap data in some of the products of its Haiti response
• World bank printed a giant poster for their SitRoom
• OpenStreetMap data is being shipped on drives to the government of Haiti

There are many alternative renderings/map views too. (Often sites set up by OpenStreetMap people)

Mobile apps

There are plenty of mobile apps on various platforms which will display OpenStreetMap maps of Haiti. Notably useful for earthquake response:

• OffMaps - The most widely used of the OSM iPhone apps. This allows you to download Haiti maps while you have a connection, for use later offline.
• GaiaGPS (App store) - a free version of the GaiaGPS app for the iPhone which gives users access to the disaster-specific imagery and renderings of Haiti.
• GPSMid - A J2ME app. Also listed below. Special customisations to help users work with the Haiti data.

But check out Software/Mobilephones to find an app for your platform. Think about how you will work with map data without a connection. "Stores map-data off-board" is probably a useful feature. Test out the app before you need it, and be aware of your battery limitations.

Extracts

Printable and Static Maps

Alternate Haiti Renders and Views

Routing and Other Services

• Open Route Service Haiti - Search and Routing - Updated hourly - http://openls.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/osm-haiti/

from GIScience @ Uni Heidelberg

now also supporting routing and geocoding in Dominican Republic

now also supporting the UNOSAT data -> Please turn on the layer in the layerswitcher. A legend is on the left side near the "Avoid Areas" feature ... Click on "UNOSAT Layer Legend"

now also supporting the http://haiti.openstreetmap.nl/ - Minutely updating mapnik tile mirror specifically for Haiti

now also supporting OSM Layers showing impassable and barriers on streets from http://zvenzzon.mine.nu:81/map.html

now also supporting GeoEye TileCache -> Please use the layerswitcher to change the map

• Port-au-Prince on the mapJumper access to more than 50 maps. Fill the list on the wiki : MapJumper. Ddrag the mJLite bookmarklet to your toolbar find it here and jump from map to map.
• https://www.geoint-online.net/community/HaitiCrisisResponse/DataServices/default.aspx - In support of the crisis in Haiti, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is providing a website open to public.

• nominatim.openstreetmap.org/haiti - Search and Geocoding service specially for Haiti.

updated hourly

api documentation as: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/nominatim (substitute https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/haiti for https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/

• http://projekte.eiops.de/osm-matrix/ TraceMatrix. A Tool to coordinate the tracework of the aerial images from GeoEye or DigitalGlobe. Zoom in and select what is already mapped in Openstreetmap.

• Accessing OpenStreetMap data within ArcGIS - OpenStreetMap data available with ArcGIS online, or via WMS services set up by ESRI.

• OSM-Emergencies (a web site available at ose.petschge.de) - Click on the map, and enter your message, for the World to see. (In this experimental phase, it can be used for any need that seems relevant. Test it with Haiti Symbolic Project: click on the purple line around the coast of Haiti.) (could automatically forward to Ushahidi in the near future.)

• Simple geocoding applications: http://dbsgeo.com/latlon/ http://gll.petschge.de/

• Animation of editing in PaP: http://labs.geofabrik.de/haiti/old-png-images-documenting-mapping-effort/port-au-prince-animation.gif

POI-Maps

Created by Lübeck. Send him an email if you need more special purpose maps.

Note: you can choose the base layer in these maps. Click on the + symbol in the upper right corner. In particular, the base layer haiti-best-wms-image is interesting because for any area in Haiti it shows the best available aerial or satellite imagery.

I did not update this maps ! --Lübeck 19:59, 14 March 2011 (UTC)