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MAPGIVE: DRAWING OUR RESOURCES TOGETHER

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Narrator: In 2010, after an earthquake

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in Haiti, online volunteers became part

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of a movement that is creating a free and[br]

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open digital map of the world.

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Mikel Maron: In an emergency, you just

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need data from wherever you have it.[br]

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Justine MacKinnon: “It's important that[br]

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the information is open and available to

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everyone, because some situations we

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don't know it's going to happen

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it's a surprise.”

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Narrator: “What is Remote Mapping?"

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Shadrock Roberts: “Remote mapping is [br]

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sort of an interesting new phenomena [br]

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that's happened probably since about 2010.

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In Haiti, we saw a real push of

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volunteers on-line to help create map data

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where none existed before.”

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Narrator: “Map data helps humanitarian [br]

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efforts; not just in a crisis.

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It helps communities like Kibera in

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Nairobi, Kenya prepare, develop, and [br]

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respond to needs at the local level.

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It's a big job and not every place[br]

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is mapped like we may believe.

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Kepha Ngito: “Developing or establishing[br]

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data is a very huge step in kicking off

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the process of changing things,

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and that is the point

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at which the maps become very useful.”

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Dale Kunce: “When the typhoon happened we

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realized there were no good maps of the

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Philippines. That there needed to be maps

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so that our personnel would know where to

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go and what they would find when they

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got there. So we partnered with the[br]

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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team to help

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them and help us build out a base

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map of the Philippines.

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Narrator: “Think of OpenStreetMap[br]

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as Wikipedia for maps.”

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Mikel Maron: “OpenStreetMap is a [br]

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free and open map of the entire world.

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It's primarily edited by volunteers.

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We create everything in the commons it's

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completely open and available for

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anyone to contribute and anyone to use.”

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Narrator: “How do volunteers help?”

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Shadrock Roberts: “The way that a

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volunteer can help is by looking at

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satellite imagery and picking out

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different predefined objects and saying OK

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I can see a house, I can trace the edges

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of that house.

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I see a road I can trace the line of that[br]

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road, I see an edge of a forest

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I can trace the edge of that forest.”

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Narrator: “MapGive is making it easier for[br]

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new online volunteers to take those [br]

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first steps in helping build an open,

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free map of the world

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and become digital humanitarians.”

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Narrator: “Learn how to map in three

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steps. Get an OpenStreetMap account.

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Practice mapping. Then, get connected

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with a task on the MapGive site.

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You'll get the skills to map...what you'll

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give helps communities around the world.”

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Joshua Campbell: “The value of the [br]

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geographic data created in OpenStreetMap

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for humanitarian response has already been

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compelling. The amount of information that

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has been produced and the utility it has

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rendered to the humanitarian community is

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a game—changer in humanitarian response.”

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Dale Kunce: “For the typhoon response

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we've had almost 16 hundred volunteers do

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something like 4.5 million edits to the

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base map just for the Philippines. And

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those 16 hundred volunteers represent

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some 3 to 4 years of dedicated mapping

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that one person would be able to do.

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Narrator: “We're asking the question:[br]

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what if there were more online MapGivers?”

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Joshua Campbell: “What could happen if we

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had 10 times the amount of volunteers?

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50 times the amount of volunteers?

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How many areas could we map? How

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much good could we do in this process?”

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Narrator: “Let's find out how much good

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we can do. MapGive today.”