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That's just called "the news". I don't see how having a dedicated, detailed crisis map adds to existing journalism for outside observers.
by themacguffinman 5y ago
That'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.