Hi Dale, Thank you for sharing the developments at ARC.
David. On Dec 20, 2015 6:19 PM, "Dale Kunce" <dale.ku...@gmail.com> wrote: > The American Red Cross GIS Team is constantly looking for new ways to > improve our workflows and learn from the OpenStreetMap and FOSS4G > communities. I'm proud to say that 95% of the GIS analysis and map making > we do is done using FOSS4G tools. > > A couple of years ago we realized that to be effective consumers of OSM > data and FOSS4G software we would need to start contributing and developing > ourselves. > > In the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan we identified > <http://americanredcross.github.io/OSM-Assessment/> a need for a better OSM > field data collection > <http://americanredcross.github.io/OSM-Assessment/#recommendations> tool > that could work with structured surveys. Eventually we created OpenMapKit > with initial seed money from USAID Global Development Lab. We have used > OpenMapKit <https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/openmapkit> in several Missing > Maps <http://missingmaps.org/> field mapping missions last year in Zimbabwe, > Rwanda, Tanzania, and Bangladesh > <http://osmstories.org/articles/Missing-Maps-community-mapping/>. During > these field trials we noticed that we were continually in need of an OMK > compatible server that did not rely on connected cloud services. Due to the > remoteness of our mapping locations we also needed to have better ways to > interact and edit OSM in a disconnected way for days and potentially weeks > at a time. > > This fall, thanks to the Page Family Foundation, we began work on our > largest and most ambitious mapping project to date. Over the next year we > will map 15km on either side of the Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Liberia > borders > <https://arcmaps.s3.amazonaws.com/share/west_africa_mapping-01.png> (large > PNG). This area was well mapped extensively by remote mappers during the > Ebola crisis but lacks ground truthed data such as identifying hospitals, > schools, churches, and other POIs. As part of this project we will > establish a mapping hub in Guéckédou and develop the software and hardware > tools that we need. > > [image: mapping hub] > > A couple weeks ago I joined the awesome folks from SpatialDev > <http://spatialdev.com/> and Stamen <http://stamen.com/> in Seattle for a > week of brainstorming and hacking. During the week we outlined and > architected Portable OSM (POSM) <https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/posm>. > As part of the project we are helping make several improvements to Field > Papers <https://github.com/fieldpapers/fieldpapers/labels/POSM> and > OpenMapKit > <https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/OpenMapKitAndroid/labels/POSM> as > well as introducing a new lightweight OMK Server > <https://github.com/AmericanRedCross/OpenMapKitServer> based on SimpleODK > <https://github.com/digidem/simple-odk>. POSM will hopefully be a very > affordable (sub $300) solution to many problems for us including offline > OSM API, OMK Server, and Offline Field Papers. > > The project is being developed in the open on github and we are open to > feedback and help. > -- > > Dale Kunce > http://normalhabit.com > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > HOT@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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