Proposal: What feature support would humanitarian aid organisations need in native maps?

Thank you for sending me the information about the public maps workshop. I
would love a chance to participate, with the following workshop proposal.

*Stream:* Map feature creation

*Proposal: *International and local responders rely heavily on maps during
the response to a humanitarian emergency. Most of the core data used in a
coordinated humanitarian response is geo-referenced, but the majority of it
is in tabular format (spreadsheets, CSV from APIs, etc), and keyed to
administrative subdivisions rather than to specific lat/lon locations. This
workshop will show typical examples of operational humanitarian data, with
explanations of how responders use them, then open up for suggestions about
how web-native mapping could support their work, especially with a
consideration of feature data hosted at multiple locations on the web, and
of the need for some sensitive data to be kept private (e.g. hospital
locations in Syria).

*Author:* David Megginson has had a decades-long involvement in open data
and open source, including GIS. He was involved with the W3C's XML working
groups in the late 1990s, lead the Simple API for XML
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML> (SAX) initiative,
created the crowd-sourced OurAirports <http://ourairports.com> data site in
2007, and was technical lead for the creation of the International Aid
Transparency Initiative
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Aid_Transparency_Initiative>
(IATA) standard from 2010–12. Since 2013, David has worked with the UN's
Humanitarian Office (UNOCHA), and is currently standards lead for the
UN's Centre
for Humanitarian Data <https://centre.humdata.org>.

Thank you, and all the best,

David Megginson
Centre for Humanitarian Data, UNOCHA
+1-613-791-8553
megginson@un.org