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There does need to be a global crisis "weather map." I proposed such a solution back in the 2011-2012 timeframe. It needs to be a data-centric system similar to
by PeterCorless 5y ago
There does need to be a global crisis "weather map." I proposed such a solution back in the 2011-2012 timeframe. It needs to be a data-centric system similar to Wikipedia, and, in fact, could and should integrate with other open source, public and crowdsourced information systems like Wikipedia.
Whether the maps are provided by Google Maps or Open Street Map or any other project should matter less than there should be a publicly discoverable way to find out how current and emergent crises will affect their lives.
- themacguffinman 5y agoThat's just called "the news". I don't see how having a dedicated, detailed crisis map adds to existing journalism for outside observers.
- PeterCorless 5y agoNo, "the news" is not the same as a sort of "digital twin" global crisis data model. There are attempts at trying to map the news. The Ukrainian crisis fostered the creation of the Live UA Maps project: https://liveuamap.com/ https://liveuamap.com/ Its coverage has since expanded to include Syria, Afghanistan, Lebanon and beyond. But mapping "the news" is insufficient. You also have the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team: https://www.hotosm.org/ https://www.hotosm.org/ Because they sometimes need to create maps of places that have literally never been mapped before. For example, zoom in to Nigeria: https://www.hotosm.org/where-we-work/nigeria/ https://www.hotosm.org/where-we-work/nigeria/ There is a hell of a lot to make a global data model and map system work. And we're missing a hell of a lot pretending that "the news" will do it for us. Again, I foresee that this is the kind of work that needs a Wikipedia-level of involvement on a global scale. There are emergent elements of it, but we're not there yet.