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Mapping palestine
1. Mapping Palestine: One Village at a time
A presentation by
Léa Park
Technology Coordinator, Friends of Sabeel
&
Donna Baranski-Walker,
Founder, Rebuilding Alliance
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
14. Ushahidi Mapping platform: Layers “plus”
• Layers: User selectable. Merge or filter data sets over the basemap
• Photos: upload to display with individual report
• Twitter feed and Social Media sharing
• Reports list that contextualizes incidents geographically and also over time.
• Subscriber alerts: “Please send me email about any incident that takes place
within _____ km of _[location]_.”
• Reporting networks, ranging from a small group of trusted reporters to true
crowd-sourcing, supported by vetting team(s) and sophisticated verification
algorithms (such as SwiftRiver)
• See About the Palestine Crisis Map for more information
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15. Submit a Report: by Email, SMS, Phone,Computer
Geolocating is a big bottleneck
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
17. I had to start from scratch…
• This publically available, read-only, spreadsheet lists ~ 400 communities. I can’t find lat/
long for ~75. Someone else may already have this information.
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18. DWG Ushahidi test: ~17 entries from 9/2011 report
Using Custom forms
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20. In Closing: What Next?
• Encourage Palestine OpenStreetMap (OSM) project.
• Share OCHA basemap data with OSMers. Example: hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, infrastructure
locations.
• Add Lat/Long column to DWG incident reports. (Do investigators geotag?)
• Is 3WS training already solving this?
• Consolidate an online placename - geocoordinate database.
• Identify other Palestinian mapping partners, especially OSM mappers
• Exchange information with Israeli mapping partners, such as Grassroots Jerusalem.
• Generally encourage geolocation-database sharing among organizations
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
