Hi,
I am Sazal Sthapit from Kathmandu Living Labs. I am an active member of
OSM-Nepal community.
Last week, we had a discussion with few people from Nepal’s Disaster
Community. We were asked one specific question, “Why should we choose
OpenStreetMap over any other maps in disaster situations?”
Hi Sazal
I'm going to jump in first with my two cents worth, bullet points below:
1. Dynamic - The map grows in real time based on input form real people
2. World Wide - The map covers the whole world
3. Free - There is no charge for any use of the map in any situation
4. Availability - It is
A lot of the post-disaster data comes from volunteers tracing or from data
donated by universities + NGOs or from satellite photos given to the
humanitarian effort. For many of these sources, it would be strange to do
free work and give free data to a company like Google or Microsoft,
especially
I have not been involved directly but we've featured the building inspector at
GeoNYC and would be happy to connect people to its authors.
Highly recommend the building inspector for the doodling of phone meetings...
I'm still searching for a blue footprint.
Alyssa.
On Apr 24, 2014, at
