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

4. OpenStreetMap
“Knowledge is power.”
-Sir Francis Bacon, 1597
An incomplete list of Social Media timeline—www.idfive.com

5. No one knows everything,
everyone knows something.
-Levy, 1997

6. www.OpenStreetMap.org

7. Jawalakhel Zoo

8. Horticulture Center, Kirtipur

9. Maharajgung Area:
Before and After

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.

11. A Growing Community of Mappers

12. The World Bank’s Open Data
for Resilience Initiative
(OpenDRI) Nepal

14. Citizens as sensors (Goodchild, 2007)

15. Mapping Party at IOE

16. At Practical Action
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk

17. Kathmandu University Mapathon
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk

18. Open Data Day Mapathon

19. Girls in Mapping
Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk

20. Tools
Walking paper GPS Smart Phone

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

24. Daily OSM Contributors in Nepal
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

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

26. This data is completely open and free.

27. Value of open data:
Snapshot of some works at NEC

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)

29. Reduces data collection and update
cost (Synergy)

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