[HOT] Refugee Crisis

Tue Nov 10 12:37:14 UTC 2015

Yes, I agree the security of the people is at stake. I am willing to
do mapping myself, have a full schedule but this explains why we have
not seen a full activation. thanks,
mike

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Blake Girardot <bgirardot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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