Presented by Robert Banick, American Red Cross, at the June 2012 MEASURE GIS Working Group meeting.

1. Mapping at the
Lowest Common
Denominator

2. Communications and outreach
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3. Communications and outreach
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4. Communications and outreach
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5. Mapping communities
Turning this…
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6. Mapping communities
…into this
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7. Housing Damage
Mapping communities: Haiti
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8. Significant Infrastructure
Mapping communities: Haiti
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9. Water supply network
Mapping communities: Haiti
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10. Fire risk and emergency response
Mapping communities: Gulu, Uganda
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11. Flood and earthquake risks
Mapping communities: Bio Bio, Chile
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12. Flood risks
Mapping communities: Jakarta, Indonesia
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13. Evacuation Routes
Contingency planning
Mapping communities: Jakarta, Indonesia
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14. Interactivity and project data
Visualizing indicators and placing them in context
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15. How?
GPS devices with
baseline surveys
Satellite tracing
Open Street Map
Walking Papers
Balloon mapping
Participatory Risk
Assessments
(VCAs)
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16. Trainings
Jamaica
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17. Trainings
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18. Aerial imagery
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19. Challenges and limitations
• Inadequate / nonexistent base data
• Closed data at national level
• Questions of scale
• (Wildly) inconsistent primary data templates and
collection practices
• Limited staffing and time
• Technical knowledge
• Cultural practices
• Distance
• Legal challenges
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20. Looking forward
Technology
• Flexibility
• Pushing tools to the field
• Trainings and support
Cooperation and partnerships
• Red Cross partners (ICRC, IFRC, other national
societies)
• Working Groups
• Other NGOS
Monitoring and Evaluations
• How do you support and integrate M&E with GIS?
• How do you evaluate the effectiveness of GIS and
cartography?
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