[HOT] Refugee Crisis

Tue Nov 10 12:16:05 UTC 2015

Hi all,

Like some of our other mapping, the refugee related crisis comes with
sensitivities about the situation on the ground and the safety of the
refugees.

For me, that is what has been a bit of what looks like inactivity.

However, there are some HOT community members who have been actively
mapping infrastructure along the refugee routes, as well as camps (off
line) and boarder crossings and checkpoints.

One of the people in HOT is working with our Digital Humanitarian
Network (DHN) partners very closely as some of them have more
experience in safety related issues and so we are following their
guidance. She has also been serving as HOT's point of contact to all
the other organizations working on the issue.

Infrastructure like roads, train stations, buss stops, hospitals and
health facilities, electronics stores, PV repair, active boarder
crossings and public wifi, among others are all totally appropriate to
map into the public OSM database as always.

Much of that type of data though requires local knowledge, it is hard
to identify an electronics repair place from sat imagery :)

People who are local to _any_ part of the routes would be very helpful.

Remote mapping is needed to for roads though, which are often
incomplete around some of the temporary facilities set up out side of
towns and villages.

If people would like to help map remotely for the refugee crisis, I
would start with coordination of larger scale mapping of roads as
identified by the current route and camp maps.

Local mappers are also needed desperately for building and other
facility mapping.

Through contacts with partners and on her own, the HOT community
member is also helping coordinate actual relief work in the Balkans
and so is limited in her time to coordinate mapping activities. But I
think we can certainly provide approximate route maps and other areas
of interested that then could be remotely mapped.

I am not sure any projects in the TM are right for this as the area
covered is rather large stretching literally from Syria (and other
countries in the region) all the way to the UK.

But if some experienced mappers want to work on it,  we can find a way
to help guide the mapping.

Others local to the area, again, I think we can provide routes and
AoIs and any local building information, especially health sites, that
could get filled in would be extremely helpful.

So, while not speaking for someone else, I would say if you want to
map related to that crisis let me know and we can get started on it,
but I think it would be more outside of the tasking manager and just
coordinated mapping via JOSM. If we identify specific locations that
need highly detailed mapping, we could create tasking manager jobs for
those situations, but at the moment, there is just a general need for
base maps with some specific PoIs included.

Hope that helps, let me know.

Cheers,
Blake

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 5:08 AM, Ralf Stephan <gtrwst9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> U.N. prepares for refugee exodus when Iraqi forces attack Mosul
>
> http://www.trust.org/item/20151109125438-5aenh/
>
> "This time the humanitarian community is acutely aware that there will be no
> justification if we are caught unprepared again," Geddo told Reuters in an
> interview. "This will probably entail massive civilian displacement".
>
> That will compound an intensifying humanitarian crisis in Iraq, where the
> number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) has reached 3.2 million -
> about a tenth of the population.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 11:03 AM Leon van der Meulen
> <leonvandermeulen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Henk Hoff is going to coordinate this kind of activities for the Red Cross
>> from Budapest, maybe he has some ideas. I’ve included him in cc.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Leon
>>
>> > On 10 Nov 2015, at 04:25, Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > I am thinking that the refugee crisis is something that might be
>> > mapped. It seems to be the biggest crisis in a long time yet no HOT
>> > activation. There are all types of things to map, starting with
>> > makeshift refugee camps.
>> > mike
>> >
>> > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Bob
>> > <openstreetmapcraigmillar at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> In the Uk we are seeing groups of people setting up collection points
>> >> for donation for refugees. Are there any mapping groups/tasks visualising
>> >> data concerning refugees, coordinating aid,camps etc. I hope to pass this
>> >> information on to various groups at State of the map Scotland
>> >>
>> >> all the best
>> >>
>> >> Bob
>> >>
>> >>
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