About a map creation tool enabling disaster rescue simulation in various regions

Abstract

In this paper, we implement a new map generation tool for RoboCup Rescue Simulation (RRS). RRS is a multi-agent test bed and simulates large-scale natural urban disasters. RRS needs many maps of various regions for disaster risk reduction. However, there are only a few maps due to the difficulty of map generation. The reason is that the current map generation tools produce maps which need a large number of manual modifications in order to be used in RRS. Therefore, we design and implement the new tool that generates RRS maps from OpenStreetMap (OSM). We confirm that the tool can generate maps that needs a few manual modifications.