Hi Frederic,
I have been mapping the European refugee camps and boat landing areas on
the Balkans and Greece since half a year. Most of them are not on OSM
for security reasons and the sensitive data they contain which I collect
from UNHCR, MSF and local volunteer groups. So by now I know pretty
much about refugee camp mapping. I also have XML presets and access to
UNHCR data about daily arrivals and situation reports.
About the Jordan camps: they are UNHCR camps which means they have
containers and are long-term. But they have grown for sure since the
last two years, 150.000 people live in Zaatari at the moment. There is
infrastructure, markets, shops and clinics. The Azraq camp is quite new
and houses a much lower number of people (15 000) than it was built for
(150.000). Because of the harsh conditions, refugees prefer to move out
and/or start their journey to Europe. Other than the camp in Zaatari it
is isolated and without community life. Syrian Refugees travelling to
Europe usually come from this camp.
Happy to tell you more about this.
Katja
FYI all. My contacts at REACH have moved on from it, does anyone here
have contacts with the current REACH Jordan team?
In a larger sense these questions of sustainability and long-term
accuracy will be a recurring issue for humanitarian mapping of camps
so it would be good to explore this topic more. I would type some
thoughts but I'm on a tiny phone screen right now.
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From: "Frederik Ramm" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: 21 Dec 2015 06:00
Subject: [OSM-talk] Zaatari refugee camp, Jordan / UNHCR / REACH
To: "Talk Openstreetmap" <[email protected]
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Cc:
Hi,
I see that there's a lot of detail mapped at this refugee camp
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=32.29460120201111&mlon=36.3242769241333#map=14/32.2946/36.3243
but when inspecting things more closely, most information seems to come
from imports that are more than a year old.
How stable are camps like this - is it prudent to assume that either
(a) if there was a greengrocer two years ago in a place, it will likely
still be there?
or
(b) the people who have imported data two years ago as part of their
job/project/assignment will still be around and change things as
necessary?
or
(c) people living in the camp have the necessary training and resources
to take map updates into their own hands?
I'd love to get in touch with people who mapped this camp, or others in
the more recent past, for a couple of general refugee camp mapping
questions.
Bye
Frederik
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