Hi there. We are facing here the challenge of any major emergency and the needs of building semantic interoperability tied to standardized symbology between the many data pipelines of the responding mapping community to allow *in fine* the production of a common good for Haiti out of the wealth of the flow of data we are struggling with.
The following posts to this thread relate to symbology, this one is about the other element of the Talbot's email: data model and adherence to symbology. Some humanitarian standards exist to support the mapping community in this phase (basic standardization) of its response. *Transportation.* I am mentioning here the United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transport (UNSDIT)<http://www.corporateaid.org/UNJLC/mapcenter/unsdi/unsdit-v2/index.html> URL: http://www.corporateaid.org/UNJLC/mapcenter/unsdi/unsdit-v2/index.html It has been developed by the late UN Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC<http://www.corporateaid.org/UNJLC>) and actually maintained under the name of SDI-T by the UN Logistics Cluster<http://www.logcluster.org/> . This package is made of a database schema, an associated set of data collection forms and a global database for storing and serving logistics data.standard has been widely adopted through the United Nations and by NGO specialized in GIS (iMMAP, and MapAction) and is likely to be deployed for this operation to organize field data collection. The UN Log Cluster released shapefiles of its data base which are available for download at URL: http://www.logcluster.org/ops/hti10a/shapefiles Little is said about the license attached to this data and It would be nice to get clarification about its re-usability for all and also for the OpenStreetMap project. A discussion on humanitarian is on-going humanitarian OSM tags<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags>on the OSM Haiti wiki and some UNSDIT-related tags<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Tags#Draft_Ontology_for_Condition_Assessment>have been proposed to support the interoperability of OSM data The UNSDIT data model might well be a resource to start with for the mapping community in its efforts towards re-usability. On the other themes of activity of relevance for the humanitarian work, important to harvest what can be mobilized from the various UN Thematic Clusters, the work of the UN Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG) towards the building of UN SDI and the international NGOs. Best N. On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Talbot Brooks <tbro...@deltastate.edu>wrote: > Just a thought – as there as a zillion different map products and > services being stood up, two things would be helpful regarding symbology: > > > > 1. It might be helpful if we could work towards standardizing symbols – > say around the FGDC Homeland Security Working Group map symbol set at: > http://www.fgdc.gov/HSWG/index.html > 2. If those working on the data side through OSM were able to help > align the tags/classification of objects towards those things for which > symbology is clearly identified, that would be helpful. Even better would > be sub-classification that matched the symbology (eg., a major trauma > center > would be a level 1 hospital versus an aid station with a doctor might be a > level 4 hospital). > > > > Regards, > > > > Talbot Brooks, Director > > Center for Interdisciplinary Geospatial Information Technologies > > Delta State University > > Box 3325 > > Cleveland, MS 38733 > > > > USNG (NAD 83): > 15SYT09823640<http://nmviewogc.cr.usgs.gov/Run.htm?BBOX=-90.74485,33.74149,-90.7262,33.7513&CLASSIDSON=6%7C20&LAYERSON=11914%7C9942%7C10362%7C9880%7C10361%7C10360%7C23115%7C1695&LAYERSOFF=17260%7C16837%7C1652%7C11777%7C16788%7C16787%7C16962%7C16964%7C22599> > > > > O: 662-846-4520 > > C: 662-588-8649 > > F: 662-846-4099 > > > > tbro...@deltastate.edu > > http://gis.deltastate.edu > > http://mississippi.deltastate.edu > > > > And occasionally > > > > GIS, Operations > > MS Emergency Management Agency > > 1 MEMA Dr. > > Pearl, MS 39288 > > > > 601.933.6362 > > > > http://www.msema.org > > > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY. This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain > confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized > disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, > please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. > > (Please note Delta State University's email system blocks all email with > .zip attachments) > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature > database 4787 (20100119) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "CrisisMappers" group. > To post to this group, send email to crisismapp...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > crisismappers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. > > -- Nicolas Chavent Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti Mobile (FRA): +33 6 75 14 29 70 Email: nicolas.chav...@gmail.com Skype: c_nicolas
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