Mapping Gaza
Mapper | 07.01.2009 16:56 | Palestine | Technology
I realise that maps of Gaza are fairly low down people's priorities right now, but there's a real need for improved maps of the Gaza Strip for aid workers and it's one of the very real ways you could help
Contacts are being re-used from various GIS and satellite imaging services, but nothing compares to first hand knowledge of people who have been or are on the ground.
A number of us are using Open Street Maps to build up Creative Commons licensed maps, and are asking for assistance in flagging any errors / things that need doing by using the Open Street Bugs website
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/?lat=31.414&lon=34.389&zoom=11 to add your knowledge of the region.
Whilst Open Street Maps restricts us to using open source data, it is an easy way of lay-people adding in geoinformation which can then be added to other data sources for use by relief workers.
We're doing much of the OSM work using the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_Gaza to organise efforts and data sources, and help there too will be useful.
If you have absolutely no idea of the layout of Gaza, and I'm guessing most won't, please either ask somebody who does or help with aid efforts in other ways. I may not be able to stop the conflict, or have much money to give to relevant charities but I can help the aid workers on the ground in some small way.
A number of us are using Open Street Maps to build up Creative Commons licensed maps, and are asking for assistance in flagging any errors / things that need doing by using the Open Street Bugs website
http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/?lat=31.414&lon=34.389&zoom=11 to add your knowledge of the region. Whilst Open Street Maps restricts us to using open source data, it is an easy way of lay-people adding in geoinformation which can then be added to other data sources for use by relief workers.
We're doing much of the OSM work using the wiki page
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Palestine_Gaza to organise efforts and data sources, and help there too will be useful. If you have absolutely no idea of the layout of Gaza, and I'm guessing most won't, please either ask somebody who does or help with aid efforts in other ways. I may not be able to stop the conflict, or have much money to give to relevant charities but I can help the aid workers on the ground in some small way.
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