WikiProject Haiti/VectorAndMapData

Data Imports

Damages Assessment (Ithaca Import)

• Purpose: to generated maps with Damages Assessment, see example.
• Responsible: Ivansanchez, John07
• Tagging: imported objects have the following tags:
  • source=Ithaca,15/10/2010
  • source:imagery=GeoEye,13/01/2010
  • FIXME=Check for duplicated data tag

The import has been cleaned up and the fixme tags removed.

Administrative boundaries

see also WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Boundaries

• Purpose: to import administrative boundaries of cities and towns in the OSM database
• Data source: US Census Bureau, original source
• Import procedure: import in four changesets on 2010-01-16 and 2010-01-17
• Tagging: imported objects have the following tags:
  • is_in="name of the district"
  • name=*
  • boundary=administrative
  • admin_level=8
  • source=US Census Bureau, boundary import, 16/01/2010
  • population=*
  • id_commune="ID given in the source file"

The boundaries described above have since been refined into relations with the tags moving to the relations and the overlaid ways merging. Further imports have been done for some of the admin_level 10 boundaries, and all of the admin_level 4 and many of the admin_level 5 boundaries have been added manually by using the existing boundary ways. Full details of the boundary relations are at WikiProject_Haiti/Status/Boundaries.

Hospital Data from PAHO

OSM has imported > 1000 health facilities from a master list provided by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) and the WHO. more infos....

Radio and TV stations from CartONG and IMS

OSM has imported ~ 200 radio and tv stations collected by CartONG and IMS. more infos....

Police stations

OSM has imported ~ 20 police stations collected by the Pacific Disaster Center. more infos ...

MINUSTAH GIS and UN Cartographic Section data

Main article: WikiProject Haiti/MinustahLayers

MINUSTAH, the UN mission in Haiti, provides maps and geo data. OSM is allowed to use them. Held as the reference datasets for the Haiti Operation by UN and main NGOs on the ground. Semantically rich data sets suitable for enhancing attribution of OSM data.

• Maps: a repository with maps in PDF format, in particular see city maps. Some of the maps are also available as warped high-resolution maps.

• WMS server: get the capabilities of the MINUSTAH WMS server. The server provides ~30 layers.

If a MINUSTAH source is used it must be given credit in the OSM database. Use the tags

• source=MINUSTAH GIS and UN Cartographic Section
• source:name=MINUSTAH GIS and UN Cartographic Section

A number of shape files based on MINUSTAH data are available at Geocommons. These include:

• Port-au-Prince Roads
• Haiti minor roads
• Haiti major roads

Files of hydrography [1] [2] and other areas of interest, for instance wells are also available. Files can also be downloaded as CSV and KML. Licensing is suitable for OSM (CC-BY [3]).

Existing Data Sets

The list of data sets on the CrisisCommons wiki is pretty complete.

• UNJLC Haiti Roads
• Administrative boundaries down to the third level
• Topo maps of Port-Au-Prince (1:12500, 1994):
• Datasets from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
  • built-up area (extracted from VHR imagery)
  • slope map (Sobel algorithm)
• personal GeoDatabase and GeoTiffs of Haiti
• Wikipedya Ayisyen may be a good source of Haitian Creole toponyms. Example: Vèrèt is English Verrettes
• Rectified Cell coverage map from DigiCell. For information only. Reusability of DigiCell data within OSM License has yet to be confirmed.
• GSM World cell coverage of Haiti
• List of radio stations provided by CartONG. Permission to import into OSM database pending. Do not import yet.
• AND Haiti possibly free to use road data set of Haiti by AND

Damage assessment

• Ithaca has released the first map of the damage using OSM as basemap (JPG )
  • Imported - new updated shapefile available, ask John07 or mailto:fabio.giuliotonolo@polito.it

• JRC has released a few maps on the damage in the area of Port-au-Prince (PDF (9Mb), PDF(8MB), more maps)

• Port-au-Prince's damage evaluation and location of earthquake affected public buildings as seen in press releases, but in 10-meters resolution only.

UNOSAT

• UNOSAT (http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/UNOSAT-EQ-201001-HTI.asp)
  • Any vector products can be used by OSM: "You are free to use our vectors/kmls as you want." - Einar Bjorgo

UNITAR/UNOSAT has produced map and corresponding .kml layers for inclusion in Google Earth in support to the humanitarian relief efforts following the 12 January earthquake in Haiti. Elements included are

• informal IDP sites
• bridges
• road obstacles

as identified in GeoEye-1 imagery recorded on 13 January 2010. We thank GeoEye for making the imagery available.

Note: This is a preliminary analysis; road and bridge damages may be underestimated. Please send corrections to UNITAR / UNOSAT: unosat@unitar.org.

Additional damage assessment map and .kml file of other key infrastructure will be issued tomorrow, Friday 15 January.

To download map, please go to www.unosat.org/asp/prod_free.asp?id=52 http://www.unosat.org/kml/EQ-2010-000009-HTI.kml

Some Raster PDF maps from 16 Jan, have been imported into the Warper for rectification and serving via WMS [4]

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Institute of Geography assembled a team to try and help in the Haiti response as well, based on their experiences with the Wenchuan earthquake recently. Geoeye imagery was used to extract:

• a road network for PaP and surroundings (e00 file)
• a KML and shapefile of collapsed buildings in and around PaP (points and polygons)
• a KML and shapefiles (point) of all fresh landslides suspected for the Riviere Frorse valley

• suspected camp locations

OSM is allowed to use this dataset.

The data files are hosted there: CAS.zip, Haiti_camps.zip.

New (2010-02-17) data files: camps.e00 (between 14-16 January 2010 (Geoeye data)), colaphouses.e00, coverarea.e00.

It is suggested to use source=Chinese Academy of Sciences

Army Geospatial Center

• Army Geospatial Center
  • http://www.agc.army.mil/haiti/pdf/haiti_hotels1.pdf (Aude has added the hotels, but there are guest houses, restaurants, galleries, and other pois to add. --Kate (talk) 07:50, 20 January 2010 (UTC))
  • http://www.agc.army.mil/haiti/pdf/haiti_hotels2.pdf - I didn't do anything with this. --Kate (talk) 07:56, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

    Though these are interesting & useful maps, they appear to be copyrighted material. Note the "all rights reserved" (tous druits reserve) and the source as "Hotel and Tourism Association of Haiti" (Association Hoteliere et Touristique d'Haiti). --Ceyockey 04:07, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Public Domain CIA Maps

• collection of (mostly) public domain CIA maps dating from 1970-2000
  • These maps have been loaded into http://maps.nypl.org/relief/
    • Some small effort is needed to warp them
    • Once a map is warped, the "Export" tab can be used to get a WMS link that can be pasted into JOSM
    • Example map: http://maps.nypl.org/relief/maps/preview/25
    • Example WMS link: http://maps.nypl.org/relief/maps/wms/25?request=GetMap&version=1.1.1&styles=&format=image/png&srs=epsg:4326&exceptions=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&
  • WMS from manual warping of 1:12.5k Port-au-Prince map sheets and whole country (coming) 1:50k topo sheets: http://hypercube.telascience.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/ortelius/haiti/haiti.map&
    • GetCapabilities XML

Image set	Use in JOSM	Use in Potlatch
haiti-city (1:25k) May be off by over 100m, but will get better asap	Use the following WMS URL in JOSM (how to configure): http://hypercube.telascience.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/ortelius/haiti/haiti.map&request=GetMap&service=wms&version=1.1.1&layers=haiti-city&format=image/png&srs=epsg:4326&exceptions=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&	In Potlatch paste the following URL into the 'custom' setting (how to configure): http://hypercube.telascience.org/tiles/1.0.0/haiti-city/!/!/!.jpg (or launch directly)
haiti-tlm-50 (1:50k) 1:50k maps for whole country coming online as they upload to this server	Use the following WMS URL in JOSM (how to configure): http://hypercube.telascience.org/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/ortelius/haiti/haiti.map&request=GetMap&service=wms&version=1.1.1&layers=haiti-tlm-50&format=image/png&srs=epsg:4326&exceptions=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&	In Potlatch paste the following URL into the 'custom' setting (how to configure): http://hypercube.telascience.org/tiles/1.0.0/haiti-tlm-50/!/!/!.jpg (or launch directly)
Entire country in variable resolution, down to 1 meter, via UN-SPIDER proxy to DigitalGlobe crisis event service	Use the following WMS URL in JOSM (how to configure): http://maps.geography.uc.edu/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/home/cgn/public_html/maps/mapfiles/haiti2.map&version=1.1.0&SERVICE=WMS&REQUEST=GetMap&FORMAT=image/png&LAYERS=DG_crisis_event_service&srs=epsg:4326&exceptions=application/vnd.ogc.se_inimage&