Humanitarian OSM Team/History

I've started gathering some of the pre-Haiti HOT moments

Presented "An Incomplete History of HOT" at the HOT Summit video slides

2005

December 2005

Mikel first presents idea of OSM for disaster response at the European Commission JRC GDACS Meeting.

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2005/12/22/16

2006

Many starting conversations and meetings with humanitarian technologists, like Michael Graham, Paul Currion, Jon Thompson. Ideas refining.

2007

March 2007

Met Nigel Woof, MapAction ED. Key humanitarian advisor in formative years of HOT. MapAction became the first user of OSM in humanitarian mapping.

April 2007

Met Jesse Robbins at Web 2.0 Expo. Discussed Jesse's experiences during Hurricane Katrina, greatly refining the use case for HOT.

May 2007

First mention of HOT concept in the media. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/THE-MAZE-MELTDOWN-Map-traffic-sites-racing-for-2562264.php

July 15, 2007

Mikel presents HOT concept at the first State of the Map.

• SOTM. OpenStreetMap. A Disaster Waiting To Happen
• http://vimeo.com/7373522,
• http://www.slideshare.net/mikel_maron/openstreetmap-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen/

November 2007

Schuyler and Mikel met Nicolas Chavent at GeoNetwork Open Source meeting at FAO in Rome. Idea formed to link UNSDI-t to OSM.

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2007/11/11/1273

2008

May 2008

Presented HOT concept with Jesse Robbins at Where 2.0

• http://whereconf.com/where2008/public/schedule/detail/3508

September 2008

Tim Waters presents HOT concept at GeOng conference, Chambery

• http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/geong-2008-forum-unsdit-open-data/

November 2008

Mikel presents HOT concept at UNGIWG

• http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/11/17/1374

2009

January 2009

Tim Waters leads Haiti primary roads import (one year before earthquake)

• http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/haiti/

First "HOT" activation during the Gaza Crisis. Fundraiser to purchase imagery.

• http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/01/

Development Seed and Robert Soden gets involved with humanitarian OSM with AfriCover import.

• https://developmentseed.org/blog/2009/apr/22/thousands_of_miles_added_open_street_map/

Mikel names Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Any humanitarian organization needs a good acronym. What can be better than HOT?!

May 2009

First public presentation of "Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team" at Soul of the New Machine conference.

• http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/05/07/1399

June 2009

First CrisisCamp in Washington DC. Met John Crowley, who asked "what would you do with sub-meter imagery anywhere in the world?". The answer to this question became Imagery to the Crowd.

August 2009

Camp Roberts experiment, first real test of HOT in humanitarian mapping workflow.

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/08/10/1410

October 2009

First use of OSM in a humanitarian emergency. MapAction map published.

http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/10/08/1495

First ICCM

More References

For post-Haiti, https://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/palen_papers/HaitiCOOP_Final.pdf

History of the OSM Tasking Manager