mapaction and qgis: gis for humanitarian response
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MapAction and QGIS: GIS for Humanitarian Response
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QGIS UK SW User Group, 19 November 2015
What do we do
Provide information management/rapid mapping in:Disaster Response
Natural disasterComplex emergencies
Disaster PreparednessNMDAIntermediary organisations RC/RC Movement, WFP, OCHA
Capacity BuildingTraining missions UN/NGOUNDAC & OSOCC training International Disaster Simulation exercises
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PakistanIndonesiaHaitiNepal
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Sri LankaJapan
Indonesia
SurinameKenyaGhanaMexicoBeninBurkina FasoBoliviaNamibiaEl SalvadorAlbaniaPakistanNicaraguaParaguayIndiaSudanSerbiaParaguayMalawiChileYemen
JamaicaDominican RepublicMyanmarHaitiPhilippinesSt LuciaPhilippinesPhilippinesMyanmarIndiaPhilippinesVanuatu
PakistanMediterranean
Cote d’IvoireLibyaSyriaCARIraqSouth SudanCameroon
Sri Lanka
LesothoNigerSahel
LiberiaSierra LeoneMali
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Disaster Response
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Affected Population
Cash Transfer
Ebola Response Units
Facility Dashboard
Distribution and Concentrations
Radio Station Coverage
Operations: Disaster Response
QGIS
Training● Capacity Building● Handover● Support
Deployments● ArcGIS is the default tool● QGIS as backup● QGIS as toolkit
1: TrainingWhere
Zambia (govt)Sri Lanka (World Bank)Democratic Republic of Congo (UNICEF)Cameroon (UNICEF)Mali (UN OCHA)Sweden (MSB)and others…
WhoInformation Managers: analytical mapsHumanitarian workers: maps for to a reportOther staff (eg Health Workers): visualisation
Why QGIS?It’s free, obviously…It’s not hard to learnIt’s easy to internationalise/customiseIt’s widely used in the humanitarian worldIt has some important plugins (InaSafe)It works well alongside other toolsIt works well with OSMIt produces good quality outputs
What works best?
Simple choropleth maps and data-driven symbolisationSpreadsheet data with lat/long coordinatesOverview and reference mapsOpenLayers base mappingQGIS and GPS – practical exercisesTeam/partner workShow and tellA mix of activities (demo, exercise, guided tasks)
and above all...
Keep it simple!
What's hard?
Print ComposerCRSLabellingCartographyMarginaliaPlanningData sharing and sensible storageTime....Suspicion of open sourceLocked down desktops
2: Deployment
www.mapaction.org
QGIS ‘Arrows’
1. Draw some simple lines
2. Add your data – or join to some
you already made
3. Set your parameters
4. Here's your shapefile of data-driven arrows
www.mapaction.org
Excel Content on a QGIS Map
1. In Excel, set up your data as a named range
2. When your ranges are set up, publish as Web
Page – and check AutoRepublish
3. In QGIS, create an HTML
Annotation and point it at the web
page
4. Your QGIS Annotations will
include the latest version of the web
page
www.mapaction.org
www.mapaction.org
Offset Markers in QGIS
1. Add two (or more) markers
2. Adjust the offsets
3. Two markers, one point
Links
UN Portal: http://www.humanitiarianresponse.infoHumanitarian Data Portal: https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: https://hotosm.org/MapAction: http://www.mapaction.orgUNCHR Portal: http://data.unhcr.org/mediterranean/country.php?id=83Intro to QGIS Workshop: http://antonys.github.io/qgis-workshop/index.html