GIScience HD contributes to Crisis Mapping Workshop for the “Natural Risk in a Changing World“ Spring School at Potsdam University
Mar 22nd, 2016 by Carolin Klonner
Last Friday, 18th March, Carolin Klonner and Melanie Eckle of the GIScience Research Group were invited to give a workshop on “Crisis Mapping with OpenStreetMap” in scope of the DFG Graduate School “Natural Risk in a Changing World” Spring School at the University of Potsdam. The PhD candidates were introduced to current research and practices regarding Volunteered Geographic Information within crisis management.
After a theoretical introduction, the participants gathered first experiences in remote mapping in a hands-on exercise. The students hereby contributed information to a Missing Maps task located in South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The remote mapping exercise was complemented by a local mobile data collection. The gathered information was used to design evacuation plans for the Potsdam Campus within a specific disaster scenario.
