This document discusses mapping villages in Palestine and related initiatives. It describes how mapping projects like OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi are being used to document human rights crises and map unrecognized villages. Challenges include geolocating some villages and consolidating place name and coordinate databases between organizations. The presentation encourages supporting Palestinian mapping efforts and sharing map data to help preserve villages and mobilize support.

1. Mapping Palestine: One Village at a time
A presentation by
Léa Park
Technology Coordinator, Friends of Sabeel
&
Donna Baranski-Walker,
Founder, Rebuilding Alliance
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2. Crises & Hope
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3. Crises & Hope: Making plans
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4. Getting on the map…
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5. Staying on the map: the question of copyright
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6. Basemaps: Proprietary versus Open Source
Tubas: Google Tubas: OpenStreetMap
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7. Outstanding Maps: 1) OCHA Mobile Map: print
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8. 2) Unrecognized Villages: Layers
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9. 3) PeaceNow Settlement Map: another example
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10. Ushahidi: means "Witness" or "Testimony" in Swahili
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11. PCM: Below the fold… timeline for all categories
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12. PCM: Timeline for selected categories
All categories
Home & Livelihood Security
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13. Reports make clear what’s going on
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14. Ushahidi Mapping platform: Layers “plus”
• Layers: User selectable. Merge or filter data sets over the basemap
• Photos: upload to display with individual report
• Twitter feed and Social Media sharing
• Reports list that contextualizes incidents geographically and also over time.
• Subscriber alerts: “Please send me email about any incident that takes place
within _____ km of _[location]_.”
• Reporting networks, ranging from a small group of trusted reporters to true
crowd-sourcing, supported by vetting team(s) and sophisticated verification
algorithms (such as SwiftRiver)
• See About the Palestine Crisis Map for more information
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15. Submit a Report: by Email, SMS, Phone,Computer
Geolocating is a big bottleneck
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16. Alerts:
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17. I had to start from scratch…
• This publically available, read-only, spreadsheet lists ~ 400 communities. I can’t find lat/
long for ~75. Someone else may already have this information.
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18. DWG Ushahidi test: ~17 entries from 9/2011 report
Using Custom forms
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19. Ushahidi can render existing DWG reports
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20. In Closing: What Next?
• Encourage Palestine OpenStreetMap (OSM) project.
• Share OCHA basemap data with OSMers. Example: hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, infrastructure
locations.
• Add Lat/Long column to DWG incident reports. (Do investigators geotag?)
• Is 3WS training already solving this?
• Consolidate an online placename - geocoordinate database.
• Identify other Palestinian mapping partners, especially OSM mappers
• Exchange information with Israeli mapping partners, such as Grassroots Jerusalem.
• Generally encourage geolocation-database sharing among organizations
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21. Mapping villages to assure their future
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22. Mobilizing support, to assure ours…
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