Dear HOTsters (HOTties?), That's my first post here, so I presume that a short introduction is in order? I'm a recent graduate of MSc in Geospatial Technologies, during which I was fortunate enough to have a number of humanitarian issues used as case studies for GIS applications. Currently I'm leading the IT Team at one of Geneva's IM-oriented humanitarian NGOs.
I'd like to start my participation here with a question - probably something fairly well known to those in humanitarian aid world, but fairly new to me: data availability and the approach to the problem by those who (theoretically?) have the power to make a difference. I know that the topic is enough for a book or few, so I'll try to use a specific example: what do you think about OCHA's CODs and FODs: http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info/ is this data actually useful, complete, high-quality? Is the availability of it any help when data is actually needed? Is there any benefit for having for example elevation data in there, if it's no higher resolution than SRTM? What about free data provided by http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ while a lot of countries don't have any data assigned on COD/FOD page? All and any thoughts and comments are welcome. I hope that this question makes sense here (I'm sorry if it doesn't!), and will be grateful for any feedback. best, -- pozdrawiam - kind regards - cumprimentos - mfg Łukasz Kruk http://lukaszkruk.com
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