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assets/downloads/mapathon-materials.zip

@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ <h1>No can do!</h1>
 
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-  <div class="header-image" style="background-image: url('https://github.com/MissingMaps/img/blob/main/images/missingmaps-blog_20150915_banner.jpg');">
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       <h1 class="title feature-header">Fire Sensor Project</h1>
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 <p>Nicely conditioned roads, beautiful beaches, cliffs, scenic bays, promenades, and hillside communities is what you think of when you hear Cape Town. However, a couple kilometers away from these spectacular sceneries and coastlines is Khayelitsha, a partially informal township reputed to be the largest and fastest growing township in South Africa. It’s a humbling sight to see.</p>
 
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-<img src="https://github.com/MissingMaps/img/blob/main/images/missingmaps-blog_20150915_khayelitsha-elyob.jpg" alt="Khayelitsha" />
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 <p class="caption">Khayelitsha, CC BY-SA <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/elyob" target="\_blank">elyob</a></p>
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@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ <h2 id="on-the-ground-in-cape-town">On the ground in Cape Town</h2>
 <p>Early on a very chilly morning we headed to the Andile Msizi Community Center in Khayelitsha with the South African Red Cross team. We met 34 volunteers and started a two-day training to introduce the volunteers to OpenStreetMap and the community mapping process. Volunteers were from the local area and immediately got hooked on the OSM iD editor looking at the satellite imagery of their neighborhoods and pointing out where they live.</p>
 
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-<img src="https://github.com/MissingMaps/img/blob/main/images/missingmaps-blog_20150915_khayelitsha.jpg" alt="Khayelitsha" />
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 <p class="caption">Navigating the narrow paths between houses, CC-BY American Red Cross</p>
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@@ -298,21 +298,21 @@ <h2 id="field-mapping">Field mapping</h2>
 <p>Our cozy days indoors ended as we headed out to start collecting data. Teams of 4-5 volunteers were escorted by community leaders and Red Cross staff into the section chosen for the day. We equipped our volunteers with Field Papers and Garmin GPS units to collect data and GPX tracks. The area is very dense and has no centralized plan or regular layout, and structures are generally small and non-rectangular.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Volunteers verifying their position, CC-BY American Red Cross</p>
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 <p>Remote tracing was completed ahead of time by digital humanitarians and was hugely beneficial, giving us a fairly accurate foundation of data. The tracing was possible thanks to recent, high-resolution imagery from <a href="http://mapgive.state.gov">Mapgive</a>. Map literacy can be a challenge for volunteers, and the better base map made the community mapping an easier process. The GPS devices were loaded with the Field Papers’ grid and the OpenStreetMap base map to help with navigation.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Garmin loaded with custom OSM data, CC-BY American Red Cross</p>
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 <p>After some initial fieldwork, we were able to use the GPX tracks from teams walking through the area to check the alignment of our two sources of satellite imagery (Bing and the very recently captured NextView imagery obtained through MapGive). It showed the MapGive imagery to be more accurately geo-referenced so we decided to adjust the OSM data to match the GPX tracks and MapGive imagery. Volunteers had time to re-visit some areas after the alignment of OSM data, but since the map tiles would not refresh quickly enough for new Field Papers, we created custom atlas pages with downloaded OSM data styled in QGIS. This worked out great to fill in gaps after the first round of mapping on the ground.</p>
 
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 <p>Field data collection focused on: editing outlines of buildings (combining, dividing, adding, and removing); adding the path network; adding amenities such as places of worship, shops, and taverns; adding features that were impossible to trace from satellite imagery such as electricity transformers, narrow rows of latrines, and water taps; and adding building numbers.</p>

blog/2015/09/15/fire-sensor/index.html

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       <h1 class="title feature-header">Community mapping in Riohacha, Colombia</h1>
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ <h2 id="community-background">Community Background</h2>
 <p>Every year in the Americas more and more people are living in conditions of vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change. To help reduce disaster risk and enhance community resilience in the region, the American Red Cross is working with Red Cross partners to address local hazards and vulnerabilities in dozens of disaster-prone communities. Through research and community discussion in the chosen communities the Colombian Red Cross has identified the top priorities for building resilience: Community health, water and sanitation, risk reduction, organizational strengthening, rights and advocacy, mitigation microproject and risk reduction.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Nuevo Milenio – one of the mapping locations in Riohacha. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>The American Red Cross team held mapathons in New York with JP Morgan Chase employees, and volunteers from Washington, DC and Bogota, Colombia using satellite imagery to remotely trace the area. With the recent imagery from Mapgive so we could have a more accurate understanding of what we were going to see in the ground.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption"> JP Morgan Chase employees at a mapathon in New York City remotely tracing for Colombia. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>The RITA program managers were excited to get the training underway and have as much time for field mapping as possible. We spent two days in a hotel conference room developing the <a href="http://openmapkit.org/">OpenMapKit</a> survey form and training the volunteers how to edit with <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpensStreetMap</a> and how to collect data using <a href="http://fieldpapers.org/">Field Papers</a> and mobile phones. All of the volunteers and CRC staff were engaged and quick to pick up the topics we were discussing. The language barrier was one of our main challenges. The trainers did not speak Spanish and the trainees did not speak English. While Alvaro Barros, our translator was an irreplaceable asset, not being able to communicate in a manner that flowed did significantly slow the training process down. Luckily this young group of enthusiastic volunteers met us half way and we were able to work around the challenge and pick up new words as each day passed.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Group discussions about community needs. Volunteer groups use large base maps of the area to start adding major points of interest and gain confidence in their map literacy. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>By the second training day the group had successfully mapped the area surrounding the hotel we were training in during their practice session. Early on the third morning we met at the Red Cross office and took a big school bus over to the areas. We grouped up, got our lunch bags for the day and set out to map two districts namely Nuevo Milenio and Villa Keiner. Due to the weather conditions, we wanted to make sure the volunteers had an early start, so they would not be working during the hottest part of the day. As we go around and check on each team, the CRC staff does the same with a Garmin Virb attached to the car that is driving through every street. The camera is set to take pictures every 3 seconds which we then upload to <a href="https://www.mapillary.com/map">Mapillary</a>.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Checking a team's location in the field while mapping. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>At the end of each day in the field, we upload and check data the volunteers collected on the phones so we can address any issues the next day. We upload pictures to mapillary, charge phones and extra battery packs and prep FieldPapers for our groups.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Preparation for data collection in the field. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ <h2 id="step-2--community-mapping">Step 2 – Community Mapping</h2>
 <p>Overall, we enjoyed making new friends in the beautiful La Guajira region of Colombia. In ten days 27 volunteers surveyed 2 350 buildings of the 20 184 that were traced by remote volunteers. We’ve uploaded more pictures from our trip <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/126636925@N06/sets/72157664879747280">here</a>.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">The group that mapped through the weekend. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ <h2 id="step-3---data-analyses">Step 3 - Data Analyses</h2>
 <p>After we got back from Colombia we were able to analyze the data collected by the community. The validated base data was uploaded to OSM while the project-specific data was used to create maps to assist with planning and decision-making for various disaster risk reduction programs.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Before and after.</p>
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blog/2016/03/29/riohacha-colombia/index.html

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       <h1 class="title feature-header">Field Mapping at Scale in West Africa</h1>
@@ -278,14 +278,14 @@ <h2 id="so-we-are-mapping-a-huge-area-in-west-africa">So we are mapping a HUGE a
 <p>This past year, the American Red Cross undertook its biggest field effort to date: launching a mapping hub in West Africa and training local volunteers to field map over 5,000 villages in the border regions of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. The mapping focuses on public health resources, different aspects of vulnerability, and amenities like markets that would draw people across borders – important information to understand if another outbreak were to occur.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">The project area includes everything shaded pink. Each tiny red dot represents a community to be mapped. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>Covering an area nearly as large as Switzerland, this project was a massive effort to scale up our Missing Maps field efforts in a rural region full of technical challenges: no connectivity, extremely poor roads, lack of electricity, dispersed volunteers, varying languages, ongoing health challenges, political challenges, etc.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Road quality is a major issue, but our volunteers manage to make it through. Photo courtesy of Lofa Chapter Red Cross volunteer.</p>
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@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ <h2 id="where-to-start">Where to start?</h2>
 <p>In March, we were finally ready to begin mapping. Local staff, together with the GIS team from DC, travelled to three field sites in Liberia to train local volunteers in mapping and data collection. The volunteers learned to use <a href="http://osmand.net/">OsmAnd</a>, <a href="https://opendatakit.org/">ODK Collect</a>, <a href="http://openmapkit.org/">OpenMapKit</a>, and paper-based tools like <a href="fieldpapers.org">FieldPapers</a>, then they set off on motorbikes to start visiting their target communities.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Red Cross volunteers prepare for field mapping in Liberia. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>With POSM, we can pre-download all the data for an area of interest before we travel to the field. Then, when we need to prepare for field mapping or lead a mapathon, we just power up the POSM box and wirelessly connect a phone or computer to it. POSM allows us to do all of our core tasks without an internet connection, for potentially months at a time. The software is free and open-source and available <a href="https://github.com/americanredcross/posm">here</a>.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Left: Before POSM, tech problems meant taping FieldPapers together by headlamp. Right: With POSM, we can fix problems and prep mapping on-the-fly. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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 <p>We’ve also launched a mapping hub at the heart of the cross-border area, in Guéckédou, Guinea. The hub is a physical office space with equipment, staff, and resources to lead trainings and outreach, and to engage with the local community. The goal of the space is not just to facilitate our mapping activities, but to provide longer-term and more sustainable engagement in the area and to foster a local community of mappers.</p>
 
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 <p class="caption">Checking out the new hub facility before it gets set up. CC-BY American Red Cross.</p>
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       <h1 class="title feature-header">Missing Maps</h1>