mapaction

Humanitarian Capacity Building and Preparedness with QGIS

FOSS4G 2016, Bonn

What we do

Provide information management/rapid mapping in:Disaster Response

Natural disaster

Complex emergencies

Working alongside UN/NGOs

Disaster PreparednessNational Disaster Management Agencies

Partners: Red Cross/Crescent, World Food Programme,
UN OCHA (Coordination Humanitarian Affairs)

Capacity BuildingTraining missions for UN/NGO

International Disaster Simulation
exercises

Slow OnsetSudden OnsetComplex;p9ADHKI$LPakistanIndonesiaHaitiNepalBrazzavilleSri LankaJapanIndonesiaSurinameKenyaGhanaMexicoBeninBurkina FasoBoliviaNamibiaEl SalvadorAlbaniaPakistanNicaraguaParaguayIndiaSudanSerbiaParaguayMalawiChileYemenJamaicaDominican RepublicMyanmarHaitiPhilippinesSt LuciaPhilippinesPhilippinesMyanmarIndiaPhilippinesVanuatu

PakistanMediterraneanCote dIvoireLibyaSyriaCARIraqSouth SudanCameroonSri LankaLesothoNigerSahelLiberiaSierra LeoneMali56Disaster Response

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Where we do it

Who does it?

Who do we work with?

Who pays? What do they get?

Mostly, we do maps

Where we want to go

Being a leading provider of mapping services at the front end of many of the worlds major emergencies, doubling current capacity to deploy where humanitarian need requires.

Build more collaborative operating environments facilitating collective standards for information management, data sharing and technical development.Lead the transfer of mapping and information management know how to humanitarian responders at national and regional level.

So far so... Arc

ArcGIS is our default tool for emergency deployments

It's what most of our volunteers use most of the time

We get free licences

We've been using it for 12 years

We've invested in customisation and plugins

Why do we care about QGIS?

It's the only realistic option for training/capacity building

It's gives us an alternative/ backup

It's widely used in the humanitarian world

It's good really good and getting better

And also...

There are dedicated plugins for disaster management/risk reduction

It's easy to use OSM data and maps

Increasing numbers of
our volunteers are QGIS users

It gives us options for inter-
operability/web publishing (e.g. qgis2web)

It will run on anything and in any language on a stick if necessary http://www.archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html

We've been training ourselves too

Good things 1: Sharing

We've built a Map and Data Repository (CKAN-based, ECHO-funded)

Major improvement to our map and data catalogue, and ability to share

Potential integration with Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX)

Good things 2: Standards

Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL)

Initiative to improve sharing/
re-use of humanitarian data

FOSS4G UK Hack, June 2016

How to integrate with QGIS?

Good things 3: Metadata

OSM transformation to MapAction data naming convention

Training Materials CatalogueDocumenting our training resources

We want more...

We'd like to do more with QGIS:

To help us teach it to humanitarian workers

To integrate it more closely with our tools and systems

To make it easier for us to publish to the web

To use it to handle HXL

To be ready to use it on emergencies if we need to

Hmm, no-one
did this for us..!

We want to build bridges, but...

We want to build bridges, but...

We have a limited number of developers

We are a tight-knit body of volunteers (good) but that can make it harder to work with others (bad)

We have to choose where to direct our limited resource

We're new to engaging with open source development

Challenges and

Possible futures

Cost: lowBenefit: low

Write our own stuff when we need it

Engage with others to help us

Just use what we can find

Cost: high
Benefit: high

Moving to OS Humanitarianism

We need to adopt 'open' principles

We need to work at engaging with the OS world

We need friendly help and guidance

We need to work with our partners

We need to recognise that open source needs resourcing

We need to pass on what we know

ascott@mapaction.org

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