WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.810 MAPGIVE: DRAWING OUR RESOURCES TOGETHER 00:00:03.810 --> 00:00:05.870 Narrator: In 2010, after an earthquake 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:08.678 in Haiti, online volunteers became part 00:00:08.678 --> 00:00:10.848 of a movement that is creating a free and 00:00:10.848 --> 00:00:12.806 open digital map of the world. 00:00:12.806 --> 00:00:14.665 Mikel Maron: In an emergency, you just 00:00:14.665 --> 00:00:16.695 need data from wherever you have it. 00:00:16.695 --> 00:00:18.565 Justine MacKinnon: “It's important that 00:00:18.565 --> 00:00:20.548 the information is open and available to 00:00:20.548 --> 00:00:23.121 everyone, because some situations we 00:00:23.121 --> 00:00:25.381 don't know it's going to happen 00:00:25.381 --> 00:00:27.135 it's a surprise.” 00:00:28.115 --> 00:00:30.095 Narrator: “What is Remote Mapping?" 00:00:30.143 --> 00:00:31.867 Shadrock Roberts: “Remote mapping is 00:00:31.867 --> 00:00:33.797 sort of an interesting new phenomena 00:00:33.797 --> 00:00:36.077 that's happened probably since about 2010. 00:00:36.077 --> 00:00:38.681 In Haiti, we saw a real push of 00:00:38.681 --> 00:00:40.821 volunteers on-line to help create map data 00:00:40.821 --> 00:00:42.821 where none existed before.” 00:00:42.821 --> 00:00:44.729 Narrator: “Map data helps humanitarian 00:00:44.729 --> 00:00:47.029 efforts; not just in a crisis. 00:00:47.029 --> 00:00:49.285 It helps communities like Kibera in 00:00:49.285 --> 00:00:51.215 Nairobi, Kenya prepare, develop, and 00:00:51.215 --> 00:00:53.605 respond to needs at the local level. 00:00:53.605 --> 00:00:55.285 It's a big job and not every place 00:00:55.285 --> 00:00:57.513 is mapped like we may believe. 00:00:57.513 --> 00:00:59.477 Kepha Ngito: “Developing or establishing 00:00:59.477 --> 00:01:02.627 data is a very huge step in kicking off 00:01:02.627 --> 00:01:04.497 the process of changing things, 00:01:04.497 --> 00:01:05.627 and that is the point 00:01:05.627 --> 00:01:07.577 at which the maps become very useful.” NOTE Paragraph 00:01:07.577 --> 00:01:09.537 Dale Kunce: “When the typhoon happened we 00:01:09.537 --> 00:01:11.409 realized there were no good maps of the 00:01:11.409 --> 00:01:13.368 Philippines. That there needed to be maps 00:01:13.368 --> 00:01:15.308 so that our personnel would know where to 00:01:15.308 --> 00:01:17.148 go and what they would find when they 00:01:17.148 --> 00:01:18.858 got there. So we partnered with the 00:01:18.858 --> 00:01:20.733 Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team to help 00:01:20.733 --> 00:01:22.363 them and help us build out a base 00:01:22.363 --> 00:01:23.633 map of the Philippines. 00:01:23.633 --> 00:01:25.273 Narrator: “Think of OpenStreetMap 00:01:25.273 --> 00:01:26.562 as Wikipedia for maps.” 00:01:26.562 --> 00:01:28.092 Mikel Maron: “OpenStreetMap is a 00:01:28.092 --> 00:01:30.531 free and open map of the entire world. 00:01:30.531 --> 00:01:32.711 It's primarily edited by volunteers. 00:01:32.711 --> 00:01:34.720 We create everything in the commons it's 00:01:34.720 --> 00:01:36.320 completely open and available for 00:01:36.320 --> 00:01:38.250 anyone to contribute and anyone to use.” 00:01:38.250 --> 00:01:39.951 Narrator: “How do volunteers help?” 00:01:39.951 --> 00:01:41.583 Shadrock Roberts: “The way that a 00:01:41.583 --> 00:01:43.343 volunteer can help is by looking at 00:01:43.343 --> 00:01:45.073 satellite imagery and picking out 00:01:45.073 --> 00:01:47.163 different predefined objects and saying OK 00:01:47.163 --> 00:01:49.939 I can see a house, I can trace the edges 00:01:49.939 --> 00:01:50.676 of that house. 00:01:50.676 --> 00:01:52.663 I see a road I can trace the line of that 00:01:52.663 --> 00:01:54.203 road, I see an edge of a forest 00:01:54.203 --> 00:01:56.033 I can trace the edge of that forest.” 00:01:56.033 --> 00:01:58.580 Narrator: “MapGive is making it easier for 00:01:58.580 --> 00:02:00.430 new online volunteers to take those 00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:02.190 first steps in helping build an open, 00:02:02.190 --> 00:02:03.417 free map of the world 00:02:03.417 --> 00:02:06.417 and become digital humanitarians.” 00:02:06.417 --> 00:02:08.152 Narrator: “Learn how to map in three 00:02:08.152 --> 00:02:11.063 steps. Get an OpenStreetMap account. 00:02:11.063 --> 00:02:12.880 Practice mapping. Then, get connected 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:15.407 with a task on the MapGive site. 00:02:15.407 --> 00:02:17.835 You'll get the skills to map...what you'll 00:02:17.835 --> 00:02:20.285 give helps communities around the world.” 00:02:20.285 --> 00:02:22.125 Joshua Campbell: “The value of the 00:02:22.125 --> 00:02:24.334 geographic data created in OpenStreetMap 00:02:24.334 --> 00:02:26.784 for humanitarian response has already been 00:02:26.784 --> 00:02:29.237 compelling. The amount of information that 00:02:29.237 --> 00:02:31.477 has been produced and the utility it has 00:02:31.477 --> 00:02:33.507 rendered to the humanitarian community is 00:02:33.507 --> 00:02:35.837 a game—changer in humanitarian response.” 00:02:35.837 --> 00:02:37.683 Dale Kunce: “For the typhoon response 00:02:37.683 --> 00:02:40.169 we've had almost 16 hundred volunteers do 00:02:40.169 --> 00:02:42.619 something like 4.5 million edits to the 00:02:42.619 --> 00:02:46.055 base map just for the Philippines. And 00:02:46.055 --> 00:02:48.625 those 16 hundred volunteers represent 00:02:48.625 --> 00:02:52.965 some 3 to 4 years of dedicated mapping 00:02:52.965 --> 00:02:55.185 that one person would be able to do. 00:02:55.185 --> 00:02:57.299 Narrator: “We're asking the question: 00:02:57.299 --> 00:03:00.299 what if there were more online MapGivers?” 00:03:00.299 --> 00:03:02.715 Joshua Campbell: “What could happen if we 00:03:02.715 --> 00:03:05.065 had 10 times the amount of volunteers? 00:03:05.065 --> 00:03:07.065 50 times the amount of volunteers? 00:03:07.065 --> 00:03:09.611 How many areas could we map? How 00:03:09.611 --> 00:03:12.421 much good could we do in this process?” 00:03:12.421 --> 00:03:14.412 Narrator: “Let's find out how much good 00:03:14.412 --> 00:03:16.912 we can do. MapGive today.”