Yoichi Kayama
I first attended FOSS4G in Victoria, Canada.
I am working to promote FOSS4G in Japan.
Recently, I have been researching issues such as how information technology can be used in times of disaster.
Sessions
When natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes occur, much work is required for recovery and reconstruction. Depending on the scale of the disaster, it is often not enough for the government and local governments to do the work alone. Disaster relief through volunteer activities by many individuals and organizations is also necessary.
In this kind of work with diverse participants, it is very important to collect and analyze information, plan the work, and divide the work among the various members.
It would be very beneficial to have computer technology available to survey disaster situations and collect, consolidate, and share data
It would be useful to be able to use the smartphones that many people own for information gathering and sharing mechanisms.
Japan's Coordinating Organization for Volunteer Organizations in Disasters
(Japan Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster) and its component organization, the IT Disaster Assistance and Response Team, developed a smartphone-based disaster information collection system in 2019 that has been used to collect and use information at many flood sites.
This system transmits disaster information collected by smartphones and consolidates it into a Google Spread Sheet.
An API has also been created to distribute information collected from Google Spread Sheet in GeoJSON format.Using this API, it is also possible to use disaster information on web maps and QGIS.
In this presentation, I will describe the status of the creation and use of this system.