Humanitarian Mapping:Sahana & OpenStreetMap

19 November 2010, WhereCamp

Fran Boon

fran@sahanafoundation.org

Oxfam in Haiti

Field teams need to Share GPS Information amongst themselves

…including Offline…

Suggested Process

Sahana Eden

Disaster Management Platform– Situation Awareness– Decision Support – Rapid Application Development– Open Standards– HFOSS

Sahana GIS

• Base Maps:– OSM, Google, Yahoo, WMS

• Overlays:–Internal, KML, GeoRSS, GPX

• Import / Export–XML, JSON via XSLT

Sahana GIS

• OpenLayers/GeoExt front-end

• Python back-end: web2py/libxml

• PostGIS (optional)

• GeoServer (optional)

• Mapnik (optional)