VGI in Crisis
April 15, 2016
jennings
anderson@colorado.edu
These slides are available: bit.ly/vgi-in-crisis
Project EPIC
Empowering the Public With Information in Crisis
Looking to better understand the use of social media and social computing platforms during disaster and crisis
VGI + Twitter
Hurricane Sandy, 2012
42k Tweets with "sandy" during Hurricane Sandy
Hurricane Sandy, 2012
Users Tweeting about Hurricane Sandy
97 Interesting Users
Protective Decision Making:
To Evacuate or Not?
What is OSM?
The Wikipedia of Maps
Editing OSM
OpenStreetMap In Use
| 2,547,742 | Registered Users |
| 497,761 | Active Users per Month |
| 134,298,933 | Buildings |
| 1,131,335 | Miles of Roads |
Data as of 2015 from Mapbox's 10 Years of OSM (mapbox.com/ten-years-openstreetmap/)
Crisis Mapping
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti
OpenStreetMap - Project Haiti from ItoWorld on Vimeo.
April 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Understanding VGI In Crisis
How do we begin to make sense of all this data?
Who are the users?
How are they using the platform?
What questions are they asking?
Why are they contributing?
Ultimately, how can we improve these platforms and processes?