Prepare Pokhara

OSM for Disaster Resilience

25 July, 2018

Kathmandu Living Labs

Arogya Koirala
data+web@kll

Saurav Bhattarai

web+architecture@kll

Demo:

https://preparepokhara.org

Challenges

• Data fetching from Overpass turbo API

  • Response time from API

  • Bad user experience while applying filters

  • Snapshot of Overpass data + hourly cron job

• Data filtering: High variability in OSM tags

Learnings

• UI Simplification

• Dynamic view generation

Learnings

• UI Simplification

• Parametrization of views.

UI Simplification -  Iteration #1

Learnings

• UI Simplification

• Parametrization of views.

UI Simplification -  Iteration #2

Learnings

• UI Simplification

• Parametrization of views.

UI Simplification -  Iteration #3

Dynamic view generation

https://preparepokhara.org/api/v2/features?type=hospital

Outcomes

• Owned by the local government (Pokhara Lekhnath Metropolitan)

• Side effect: OSM validation tool.