From Crowdsourced Mapping to Community Mapping: The Post-earthquake Work of OpenStreetMap Haiti

摘要: The earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 catalyzed a nascent set of efforts in then-emergent “volunteer technology communities.” Among these was the response from OpenStreetMap, volunteer-driven project makes geospatial data free and openly available. Following earthquake, remotely located volunteers rapidly mapped affected areas to support aid effort remarkable display crowdsourced work. However, some within believed impact import open collaborative mapping techniques could provide much richer value humanitarian work long-term development needs country. They launched an ambitious trialed methods for how create sustainable locally-owned community-mapping ecosystems at-risk regions world. This paper describes organization emerged out response—the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team—formalized their practices relation many different stakeholder with aim setting model potential participatory, community be realized beyond.