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MapAction and QGIS: GIS for Humanitarian Response
1. MapAction and QGIS: GIS
for Humanitarian Response
Dartmoor National Park
QGIS UK SW User Group, 19 November 2015
2. What do we do
Provide information management/rapid mapping in:
Disaster Response
Natural disaster
Complex emergencies
Disaster Preparedness
NMDA
Intermediary organisations RC/RC Movement, WFP, OCHA
Capacity Building
Training missions UN/NGO
UNDAC & OSOCC training
International Disaster Simulation exercises
12. 1: Training
Where
Zambia (govt)
Sri Lanka (World Bank)
Democratic Republic of
Congo (UNICEF)
Cameroon (UNICEF)
Mali (UN OCHA)
Sweden (MSB)
and others…
Who
Information Managers:
analytical maps
Humanitarian
workers: maps for to a
report
Other staff (eg Health
Workers): visualisation
13. Why QGIS?
It’s free, obviously…
It’s not hard to learn
It’s easy to internationalise/customise
It’s widely used in the humanitarian world
It has some important plugins (InaSafe)
It works well alongside other tools
It works well with OSM
It produces good quality outputs
14. What works best?
Simple choropleth maps and data-driven symbolisation
Spreadsheet data with lat/long coordinates
Overview and reference maps
OpenLayers base mapping
QGIS and GPS – practical exercises
Team/partner work
Show and tell
A mix of activities (demo, exercise, guided tasks)
and above all...
Keep it simple!
19. 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
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23. 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