[HOT] Refugee Crisis

[Pierre Béland]

The crisis community is supporting for the refugees with various actions. Various communities support in various areas and wifi services are offered. We see a new phonomenon where Refugees use social medias and smartphones, communicate, navigate with maps.

See 
https://twitter.com/DisasterTechLab/status/663346117543862273https://twitter.com/EsriStoryMaps/status/645949563434479616
https://twitter.com/Simon_B_Johnson/status/649576458596298752
https://twitter.com/periferien/status/644138213561475072

I read that refugees are downloading Google Maps on their smarthphones to travel. The OSM communitycould help by providing an up to date map of the areas of transit and offering download services. For example, with a Website to download OSM extracts that cover the zones where  the refugees travel. Country downloads are probably too big. OSMAnd is what we use generally for humanitarian responses and it works well.
We can also update the OSM map with data collected in the field related to services for refugees. I have discussions presently to obtain such data.  
Pierre 

      De : Ralf Stephan <gtrwst9 at gmail.com>
 À : Leon van der Meulen <leonvandermeulen at gmail.com>; Mike Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> 
Cc : "hot at openstreetmap.org" <hot at openstreetmap.org>; "Henk Hoff (toffehoff at gmail.com)" <toffehoff at gmail.com> 
 Envoyé le : Mardi 10 novembre 2015 5h08
 Objet : Re: [HOT] Refugee Crisis
   
U.N. prepares for refugee exodus when Iraqi forces attack Mosulhttp://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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