Hi, I'm Jana. I'm the Community Engagement and Communication Coordinator at the Czech Office of the Doctors Without Borders. You might be wondering who is this child. His name is

Victor, or Victory, and he is in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His mom brought him to the General Reference Hospital in Angumu, which is an area in the northern part of the RC close to Lake Albert that has experienced a lot of flooding. And there is also a lot of

displacement because there are flashes of the coastline. So there are about 11 displacement in refugee camps. And also with malaria, unfortunately, often we experience outbreaks of waterborne diseases or with the diseases from vectors, like from mosquitoes. So he was diagnosed

with acute anemic malaria. And when our nursing activity manager Awa saw him, she put him directly into the intensive care unit. She is from Nigeria. And luckily, she was in the RC for

three months to share her expertise normally based at Magaria Hospital and started as a residential staff for MSF or the shortcut in French, that's our international name. The first thing that Awa did was to put a catheter in his hand and take a blood sample.

There's this blood group for donors. Unfortunately, his mom was not compatible. Several of his family members traveled to the hospital to be tested. I'll tell you the end of the story at the end of my presentation. These are just a few examples that we faced

of challenges in the last year. Drought and malnutrition, natural disasters like a volcano eruption, malaria that I mentioned, outbreaks of diseases and also neglected diseases like facial infection, cyclones and refugees and displacement and flooding. South Sudan was

one of the most affected. In all these contexts, we have maps with the missing maps. It's a project that was funded precisely to help map the areas where vulnerable populations live

that are prone to be affected by disasters or that address disasters in all of these countries. We co-founded it with the British and American Red Cross and the humanitarian open street map team, an originally British NGO, which is now actually placed also in different African spots

where they have open mapping hubs. They also have an Asian open mapping hub. Then over the years, a bunch of organizations have joined. Now it's about 20. Why I put this

on is because maybe you recognize some of the research institutes or organizations that you've partnered up with, so it might be good that you're aware that they are part of this collaboration initiative. Among the mapping NGOs like Map Action or Youth Mappers, a network at something like 170 universities around the world, including Slovakia, I would like to mention the

Heidelberg University and also the George Washington University. The Heiges is one of our closest partners and they also teach courses in open street map and in the use of humanitarian data in participatory action. The open street map spatial data help NGOs like ours respond to

real world challenges, natural disasters like tornadoes or flooding or earthquakes. And in these cases, when the volunteers are mobilized, the area can be mapped within hours

or within two days for our urgent medical projects like for vaccination campaigns. The OSM data is used both for planning where to go and take samples, where to go and vaccinate, and then also for measuring the effectivity, where to take samples in order to see the

percentage of those who have been vaccinated. I will share one example of measles vaccination later on. And then of course getting the medical supplies to where they need them. So our GIS is actually integrated within logistics and it's the field that makes the

request for missing maps to be activated and they usually also send the area of interest. Among the open map data creation and editing tools, I'd like to mention MapsWeb, a mobile app that you might not be aware of, where we upload big areas and then volunteers swipe on their phone

and tap where they see buildings or they can tap twice, we're not sure, and it'll turn orange or three times when the data from the satellite is not good enough. And that enables us to

create a grid like this in the hot task manager, which is I think now the fourth version from the original OpenStreetMap editor. The ID editor is actually integrated in this browser, in this platform, and within the same window in the browser. Then we use JOSM, that's for more advanced mapping and it's more powerful. And other editors like Maprolet,

especially for points of interest and RapID with the use of AI presets of data. And QGIS, and I forgot to put here also the COBOL toolbox, which is used by our field teams for mobile data collection. What's the process of the missing maps data creation?

Well, as the first step, remote volunteers meet and they digitize imagery into OpenStreetMap after MapsWeb. So here I have an example of how this huge area with the red contours in Northern Nigeria, so to say, was reduced to just those green areas.

And that's mapathons. The green areas actually create the tiles, which the volunteers review and where they digitize building after building. So we organize these about every month in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For about a year and a half, we had mainly online mapathons,

but lately we've moved to hybrids and also in-person mapathons. And then after also validation at the second step of the remote mapping or the third, if you found MapsWeb as well, we add the field data. That's our staff in the field or sometimes the volunteers or the

local mappers, because obviously from the satellite imagery, you can't see the use of the buildings or how the settlements are called. So that's the information that the field teams get them. Sometimes they also take GP extracts because some of the tertiary roads are not yet in the

OpenStreetMap or they would take points, for example, of the water sources like our Watson team. And then thirdly, the use of the humanitarian data. This is in Mozambique after the preparing for the emergency response. And the good thing with OpenStreetMap, of course, is that

it's available for the government, for the other organizations in the area, and they can amend that. So it's a living set of data. It's not something static. Here is a snapshot of our support to the MSF operations in the first four months of this year. So you can see actually all

of those challenges in there involved flooding in South Sudan. And by the way, there have been more than one project in CHAT, yellow fever and general health response. We've had also some emergency projects there that were not part of the long-term campaign. I'll mention the

measles vaccination survey next. And then often it's multiple activity support for planning our operations and Watson activities like overlaying with the data of the water sources or even

deep water and then checking where they should go next, for example, for making wells or finding other water sources or actually delivering canisters and so on if there isn't just a source of water. So to sum up, what the geo data is used in our operations,

first of all, it's for understanding the context. That's for the so-called explore, meaning the assessment before the projects are even developed. So usually a small advanced team is sent ahead and that's the moment where the volunteers would be activated in order to create reference maps or thematic maps like for health institutions or, for example,

for water. For activity planning, obviously, it depends on what activity it is. We work with epidemiologists, for example, for the health activities, also for the situation monitoring and

for reporting cases. So our colleagues contacted us, they are planning to do a field survey the next week. It was about a month ago and we created two projects on the open street map and

here you can see how volunteers mapped in Bangalore and the speed at which they added buildings. So especially for mapping at the level of cities for small areas, it's very effective.

Second example that I want to share with you is mapping that we initiated for the explore last March and it's my colleague who was an intern in Missing Maps and GIS coordinator,

a South African, so he has a bit of a funny accent.

At the distribution points, we've got many women waiting with their children. They've been walking four hours and even more, which is obviously quite a big problem because it's very hot, very dry, not a lot of water available. So using GIS and Missing Maps data,

we can help improve the situation. So we were in the village the other day walking around and

you could see the buildings that we passed and when we have all the buildings downloaded for a large area, then we can go and do an analysis of the density of the buildings to

show us where people are and also give us an idea of the density of the population. Then we can determine how far they are from health facilities or water points.

So there it was important for the population density actually because where already population datasets, which provinces, for example, have the most population, but seeing where really people are clustered, then determine where the mobile clinics would

go, for example, to find the malnutrition or where the distributions would take place. Now, what can you do? You can help them in areas like where Victoria is from. Luckily, his grandfather was compatible and they quickly took blood from him and put

transfusion over the head of this boy. And in two days, it could already be moved to the continuing care ward. Angoule continues to be affected by malaria and we've used the so-called indoor residual spraying there to increase the protection. It provides protection

for about nine to 12 months when the dwellings are sprayed with an insecticide from inside. And for that, we actually need the mapping at the building level so that it can be used for dispatching the teams which buildings are going to visit and on mobile when they mark which buildings have been sprayed,

which they could not access or where they got the refusal. And that then is put together at the end of the day by the GIS coordinator and taken into account for the next day's planning. We have the next mapathon on the 28th of June, so if you're in Prague, you're welcome to join us. You can use the short link bit.ly slash Prague mapathon. If you're interested to get involved

in missing maps in any way, don't hesitate to send me an email. And if you just want to follow from distance what's happening, we have a Facebook group, Missing Maps, just for science book, or you can follow the Missing Maps on the social media. And now I would like

to get space for questions or comments. Yes. Have you tried using the Facebook population density maps in 30 meters ocean? So we have used some Facebook data sets, especially the roads in the RAP ID,

but I'm not aware that we would use that for buildings. Often the problem with the AI generated data is that the buildings are not drawn exactly where the buildings are or that in these areas were really needed by the building level. It's not precise enough,

but we do use remote sensing and AI generated area also within MSF. It's basically compatible with Missing Maps. So this, this concrete set, we don't use it within the Missing Maps context, but our colleagues in the Vienna spatial team, then they, they do basically building

generation where they identify it. So it's possible that they use it as well. And that's especially if we need it quickly, like example now in Mozambique or in DRC,

there's big displacement around Groucho. I'm hearing that's where actually the volcano eruption took place. So they, they are going to use that. Again, it would be my colleagues from the GIS center who are in the mapping team. I'm not aware that they would use that, but they use all the available data sets.

So probably they do. Yeah. Yes, please. And I wanted to ask if you were linking to the UN at all. Great questions. A question actually, yes, we, we have been in touch with the UN mappers

and they do also mapathons. We did not go ahead with sort of welcoming them to the family of Missing Maps because the approach to mapping is a little bit different than also UN peacekeeping operations. So there is sometimes association with the military.

That's not necessarily compatible with the Red Cross or MSF. However, they're very advanced in terms of tutorials and in terms of organization. So we share knowledge and we also share when we are mapping in the same area and they are preparing step by step tutorials in the six UN languages, as far as I'm aware, the map center that's in Italy.

Now I don't remember the exact name. So it, it kind of fits back into the open mapping communities. We are in touch and we cover it. And sometimes when they map in the same area, they would write us comments on the projects.