AIFDR/riab — Issue #175: Ability to ingest Open Street Map data
Author: uniomni
Created: 2011-11-02 01:59:32+00:00
State: open

Currently, the risiko demo dataset contains a layer from Open Street Map with building footprints and some information about building structure. It has been downloaded from http://data.kompetisiosm.org/buildings.zip, however what really is needed is for Risiko to be able to access this data more seamlessly. There are two important and different use cases

Ability to add features and have them immediately show up in Risiko.
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This use case is written around the JOSM tool but could be done with alternatives such as QGIS if that would make sense.
For the purpose of this use case we can assume that Risiko is running and can be accessed from user's laptop (for example by having it run locally in develop mode).

1: User is presented with imagery and the ability to draw polygon or point on the map (i.e. identifying own house) perhaps with a few attributes such as wall type.
2: User then clicks "Submit" and points browser to a running risiko server where the layer with the newly added feature is available in the exposure data selection combo. This will require that the layer is automatically equipped with the appropriate keywords (e.g. category:exposure, subcategory:buildings)
3: User can then run scenarios (earthquake, flood, tsunami and tephra) using this dataset exactly as what is currently done with the bundled OSM building footprint dataset.

Ability to point Risiko to a server that provides OSM layers live
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Use case is:

1: Add new server where the OSM data lives
2: Add layer with e.g. building footprints
3: Use it the same way the bundled osm building data is currently used

(this requires keywords)