1. OpenStreetMap and
OpenDRI: An Overview
Nama Raj Budhathoki, PhD
Lead, The World Bank’s Open Data for
Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI), Nepal
ICIMOD (March 20, 2013)
2. A society that promotes the culture
of data sharing is likely to prosper
faster.
-Benkler, 2006
3. Our Challenges
— Reduce the cost of data collection and
update
— Locate, access, understand and effectively
use geo-referenced data
— Building and maintenance of technical
infrastructure for data sharing
— Gaining citizen trust in what we do
10. Underlying Concept
— Provides an open collaborative mapping
platform to build a free and open map.
— A map of the community, by the community,
for the community.
— A global community of about one million
volunteers.
21. Reaching out to people through sensitization presentations
1200 8
Number of presentations
7
Number of direct audience
1000
6
No. of direct audience
800
5
600 4 No. of sensitization
presentations
3
400
2
200
1
0 0
November December January February
22. Number of Mapping Parties and Mapping Party attendees
700 7
Number of Mapping Party attendees
Number of Mapping Parties
600 6
Total number of
500 5 Mapping Party
attendees
400 4
Number of Mapping
Parties
300 3
200 2
100 1
0 0
November December January February
23. OSM members in FaceBook groups
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
July August September October November December January February March
25. No. of nodes (measures geometric features mapped in OSM)
400000
350000
300000
250000
200000
150000
100000
50000
0
September October November December January February
28. Quality of OSM Data
“The analysis shows that OSM information
is fairly accurate: on average within about
6 m of the position recorded by the OS,
and with approximately 80% overlap of
motorway objects between the two
datasets. In the space of four years, OSM
has captured about 29% of the area of
England.”
(Haklay, 2010)
30. Further Readings
— http://andreaforte.net/abs.html
Special Issue on Open Collaboration and Wiki Research
§ Budhathoki, N.R., & Haythornthwaite, C. (In Press). Motivation for
Open Collaboration: Crowd and Community Models and the Case of
OpenStreetMap. American Behavioral Scientist.
§ Bertram, B., Bishop, A. & Budhathoki, N.R. (Forthcoming). Youth
Community Inquiry: New media for Community Building and Personal
Growth.
§ Budhathoki, N. R., Nedovic-Budic, Z. & Bruce, B. (Chip) (2010). An
Interdisciplinary Frame for Understanding Volunteered Geographic
Information. Geomatica, The Journal of Geospatial Information
Science, Technology and Practice. 64(1).
§ Budhathoki, N.R. (2010). Participants’ Motivations to Contribute
Geographic Information in an Online Community. PhD Dissertation,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
31. For More Information
• Friday OSM Clinic
• Visit: www.osmnepal.org
• FB Group: OSM Nepal