Hello OSM communities in Austria, Hungary and Bavaria,
I am a community member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team HOT http://hotosm.org/ and part of their Communication Working Group. I would like to know if any of you is involved in mapping activities in this humanitarian crisis taking place in these three countries? In my opinion it could be highly useful to locate refugee camps, tent cities and other housings for logistics and coordination, and to estimate the number of refugees arriving.
HOT hasn´t received a formal request to activate, so I started mapping camps and tents on my own, based on information from newspapers and websites from local initiatives and refugee organisations. But I have no local knowledge and the data is not verified on the ground or field mapped, so I can only rely on what I see on satellite imagery and what my experience tells me. As a precaution I did not upload the data to the OSM server to prevent the locations from being targeted by anti-immigrant or right-wing activists.
So if you have any knowledge about mapping initiatives or even support a humanitarian organisation by mapping, I would be glad to join and help.
Kind regards Katja _______________________________________________ Talk-at mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-at
