GIS in London Resilience Partnership: Where are we?

London Trainee and Student GIS community

22 Nov 2013

Matthew Hogan | London Resilience Team @London_Prepared

Firstly, who are we?

• My background

• London Resilience Team’s background

• Who we work with and why

Assumption

• We’re convinced there are advantages to using and exploiting GIS for resilience, both in terms of preventative activity but also for response.

• Are we correct in that assumption, is it valid?

How we currently use GIS…

• Hounslow Composite Risk Mapping

• Environment Agency Flood Mapping – Drain London Flood Mapping

• Public Health Incidents – official vs unofficial

• Public Disorder – Guardian

Barriers to use

• Policy

• Fear

• Lack of understanding and appreciation

• Organisational dynamism

• Data quality/storage/processing

• Data sharing limitations

• Resources - Hidden skills

What could it achieve?

• Enhanced contextual understanding – the ‘so what?’

• Deployment of resources - coordination

• Positioning of assets and response actions

• Determination of priorities

• Benefits from linking geographical data

The road ahead…

• Real time status of London informs the responses of organisations - CityDashboard

• Harness and use Big Data to provide better day-to-day and emergency response

• Pattern and trend analysis

• What does Hollywood say?

• SmartGrids and iCities

It’s not about maps

• It’s about information

• And it’s about people

• Standards and consistent meta-data – London Datastore

• Role of volunteers – crisismappers / Google / Ushahidi

GIS in London Resilience Partnership: Where are we?

Questions

@London_Prepared

www.londonprepared.gov.uk