![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
Tuesday, March 20, 2012](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/mappingpalestine-120320183906-phpapp02/85/Mapping-palestine-14-320.jpg)
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
- 2. Crises & Hope Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 3. Crises & Hope: Making plans Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 4. Getting on the map… Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 5. Staying on the map: the question of copyright Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 6. Basemaps: Proprietary versus Open Source Tubas: Google Tubas: OpenStreetMap Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 7. Outstanding Maps: 1) OCHA Mobile Map: print Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 8. 2) Unrecognized Villages: Layers Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 9. 3) PeaceNow Settlement Map: another example Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 10. Ushahidi: means "Witness" or "Testimony" in Swahili Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 11. PCM: Below the fold… timeline for all categories Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 12. PCM: Timeline for selected categories All categories Home & Livelihood Security Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 13. Reports make clear what’s going on 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 Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 15. Submit a Report: by Email, SMS, Phone,Computer Geolocating is a big bottleneck Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 16. Alerts: 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. Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 18. DWG Ushahidi test: ~17 entries from 9/2011 report Using Custom forms Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 19. Ushahidi can render existing DWG reports Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 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
- 21. Mapping villages to assure their future Tuesday, March 20, 2012
- 22. Mobilizing support, to assure ours… Tuesday, March 20, 2012