WikiProject Bangladesh/RohingyaCrisis
Almost 1 million Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar for Southeast Bangladesh in the past few months. For more informations, visit Wikipedia Northern Rakhine State clashes Mapping to support humanitarian actors (as MSF, the Red Cross and Save the Children) has started in September 2017, and it keeps on because the camps are in constant evolution up till today.
In September the most recent imagery available for use on OpenStreetMap was the Mapbox imagery (dated 2016), this was used by the local OpenStreetMap community of Bangladesh to get the map of the general area improved. As from the end of September and the beginning of October new imagery was taken by Digital Globe where we received kindly access to thanks throught the MapGive initiative. In December the IOM was able to fly drones over the camps which were made available through OpenAerialMap.
For aid organisations
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Mapping attention points in the camps
Mapping the projects in the Rohingya camps in Bangladesh requires quite a bit of attention because :
- shelter data is being used in the creation of an addressing system and population calculations
- the road network, or should we say path network, is to reach people. Several humanitarian organisations are using OSMAnd for this. Because the main mode of transport is by foot, the network needs to be mapped as true as possible
- ... add your points !
Mapping shelters
- The long blocks of several shelters should be divided in individual shelters. If you are using JOSM, you can use the terracer plugin which allows you to draw the whole extent of the building and then split it into x parts (mainly 6 here).
Mapping paths
There are only a few roads passable by a car or any other four wheel vehicle. So most of the ways are paths.
- For the footpaths we use highway=path
- For the main footpaths we use highway=track and motorway=no
- For the few roads passable by car we use highways=residential or where applicable highway=unclassified/tertiary/secondary
Tasks to map
A umap map has been created to have a global overview of what has already been mapped since the last available IOM drone imagery, validated and where. Please contact : Giraud colin (on osm, edits, contrib, heatmap, chngset com.) if you have suggestions/comments/questions. A second stage of validation is under process as the mapping was split into two parts (buildings and roads). You will also find the stage of this on this Umap map.
| Number of project | Name | Date of project | Imagery | Entities to map | Mapped | Validated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #4891 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis camp mapping - NW of megacamp 3 Update | Drone Imagery from IOM 07/06/2018: https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5b1f8d422b6a08001185f7ce/0/5b1f8d422b6a08001185f7cf/{z}/{x}/{y}.png | Buildings, roads | 100% | 100% | |
| #4797 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis camp mapping - NW of megacamp 2 Update | 24/06/18 | Buildings, roads | 100% | 100% | |
| #4796 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis camp mapping - NW of megacamp 1 Update | Buildings, roads | 100% | 100% | ||
| #4768 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Teknaf camp shelters (new area 23) | Drone Imagery from IOM 25/04/2018: https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5ae860980b093000130affd4/0/5ae860980b093000130affd5/{z}/{x}/{y}.png | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4688 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Teknaf camp shelters (new area 22) | Buildings | 100% | 100% | ||
| #4651 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Teknaf camp shelters (new area 21) | Buildings | 100% | 100% | ||
| #4609 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis camp mapping - Shamlapur camp | Drone Imagery from IOM 25/01/2018: https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5a6c378f2553e6000ce5abef/0/242bb582-f612-451a-b41f-49eca6dafb5b/{z}/{x}/{y}.png
Drone Imagery from IOM 20/06/2018: https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5b3203d32b6a08001185f88b/0/5b3203d32b6a08001185f88c/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4605 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis camp mapping - Charkmarkul camp | 28/05/18 | Drone Imagery from IOM 05/05/18 https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5afa8b982b6a08001185f0cf/0/5afa8b982b6a08001185f0d0/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
Buildings | 100% | 100% |
| #4604 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis camp mapping - Unchiprang camp | 28/05/18 | Drone Imagery from IOM 25/04/2018: https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5ae860980b093000130affd4/0/5ae860980b093000130affd5/{z}/{x}/{y}.png | Buildings | 100% | 100% |
| #4578 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Teknaf camp shelters (new area 20) | Buildings | 100% | 100% | ||
| #4573 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Teknaf camp shelters (new area 19) | 18/05/18 | Buildings, roads | 100% | 100% | |
| #4473 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 18) | 05/18 | Drone Imagery from IOM 24/04/18 tms[22]:https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5ae862e00b093000130affd9/0/5ae862e00b093000130affda/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
Buildings | 100% | 100% |
| #4331 | Solidarité International, refugees crisis, Bandarban (Bengladesh) | Bing Imagery | Building, roads, residential area | 100% | 100% | |
| #4200 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 17) | 02/18 | Drone Imagery from IOM 12/02/18: tms[22]:https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5a899ddc2553e6000ce5acae/0/a5348d7e-941e-461f-8867-cf9162da5660/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
Buildings | 100% | 100% |
| #4196 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 16) | 02/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4146 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 15) | 06/02/18 | Drone imagery from IOM 24/12/17 tms[22]:https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5a4203c12553e6000ce5ab28/0/b6dae42c-0c6e-4f8e-ac84-a1344aa009da/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
Buildings | 100% | 100% |
| #4145 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 14) | 05/02/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4143 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 13) | 03/02/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4137 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 12) | 02/02/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4117 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 11) | 01/02/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4101 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 10) | 30/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4081 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 9) | 29/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4067 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 8) | 25/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4065 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 7) | 24/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4063 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 6) | 24/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4060 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 5) | 24/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4040 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 4) | 19/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4038 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 3) | ?/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4030 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 2) | ?/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4009 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (new area 1) | 12/01/1 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #4006 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp roads (global update) | 12/01/18 | Road | 100% | 100% | |
| #4003 | Bangladesh Refugee Crisis - Kutupalong camp shelters (update 1) | 12/01/18 | Buildings | 100% | 100% | |
| #3939 | Bangladesh Population Movement - Kutupalong camp and surrounding settlements | 12/12/17 | Drone imagery from IOM 02/12/17 tms[22]:https://tiles.openaerialmap.org/5a260c3c31eff4000c38067b/0/ae33ac6c-45aa-4834-b7aa-5f63cacb55ca/{z}/{x}/{y}.png |
Buildings, road | 100% | 100% |
| #3855 | Bangladesh Population Movement - Kutupalong camp and surrounding settlements | 17/11/17 | DigitalGlobe 11/10/17 | Buildings, road | 100% | 100% |
| #3854 | Bangladesh Population Movement - Kutupalong camp and surrounding settlements | 17/11/17 | DigitalGlobe 22/09/17 | Buildings, road | 100% | 100% |
| #3730 | Bangladesh Population Movement - Kutupalong camp and surrounding settlements | 26/10/17 | DigitalGlobe 11/10/17 | Buildings, road | 100% | 100% |
| Task on the teachOSM server set up by the local Bangladesh OSM community: #447 - Map Your City: Map Cox's Bazar | 16/09/17 | Mapbox default imagery (dated 2016), and as from mid October DigitalGlobe 11/10/17 | Buildings, road, residential areas | 100% | 20% |
