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?”
W
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 ava
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 wh
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Mark Cupitt wrote:
> 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
>
I don't think t
Hello all,
Thank you Mark, Nick and Nirab for the great responses.
I am now actually trying to document these responses and other resources as
to why we [should] choose OSM over other map sources in disaster
situations. It would be really helpful if I could get some insights into
what prompted tr
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:23 AM, Sazal Sthapit wrote:
> While I do have some idea to answer this question in bits and pieces, I
> was wondering if we could come up with specific advantages and
> disadvantages of using OpenStreetMap over other maps.
What else would you use ;) ? Here's why OSM wor
Dear Sazal,
Last year I made a presentation about OSM and its benefits for open data
preparedness, crisis response and recovery, you can flind the slideshow
here if interested: http://www.slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/hotosm
Sincerely,
Severin
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Alex Barth wrote:
>
Thanks Alex and Severin. Great resources there. It will be greatly helpful
for what I am trying to do. Thanks a ton!
@Alex: What else indeed? :)
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Severin Menard
wrote:
> Dear Sazal,
>
> Last year I made a presentation about OSM and its benefits for open data
> p
