Examples of using Crowdsource mapping in English and their translations into French
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Space-based information for crowdsource mapping.
Crowdsource mapping and natural hazard early warning in Brazil.
Experts also discussed the use of the term"crowdsource mapping", as opposed to"crisis mapping. .
UN-SPIDER and the Secure World Foundation informed participants about their activities in the field of crowdsource mapping.
International Meeting of Experts on Crowdsource Mapping for Disaster Management and Emergency Response.
One suggestion was to build an integrated public platform for the crowdsource mapping community.
International meeting of experts on crowdsource mapping for preparedness and emergency response.
The crowdsource mapping community was apparently made up of multiple actors including voluntary associations, NGOs, individuals and private sector agencies.
UN-SPIDER is taking a leading role in harnessing the potential of crowdsource mapping for the benefit of countries in need.
It was noted that crowdsource mapping was an interdisciplinary field bridging many areas of expertise, including the need to access and use space-based technologies.
It presented the temporary image licences it offered andexplained its approach to crowdsource mapping for analysing large amounts of data.
How does the crowdsource mapping community take advantage of existing opportunities and sources of space-based information to support its efforts in helping the emergency and humanitarian response communities?
This group discussed aspects of coordination between the crowdsource mapping and the emergency response communities.
Improvement in communication andpublicity of crowdsourcing activities would help tremendously to support the efforts by the crowdsource mapping community.
International meeting of experts on crowdsource mapping for preparedness and emergency response held in Vienna in July.
Crowdsource mapping took the opportunities provided by volunteer and technical communities a step further by encompassing actions and activities that supported the full disaster management cycle and were not only for emergency and humanitarian response.
The first activity of this project was a meeting of experts on crowdsource mapping for preparedness and emergency response, held in Vienna on 5 and 6 July 2011.
How does the crowdsource mapping community take advantage of existing opportunities and sources of space-based information to support their efforts in helping the emergency and humanitarian response communities;
How can all three communities work together to achieve the long-term involvement of the work of the crowdsource mapping community in the support of the emergency and humanitarian response community;
Bringing together the three communities(crowdsource mapping, disaster management and space technology communities) to discuss their fields of expertise provided an opportunity to better understand the questions being asked and the ways that space-based technologies could contribute to solving them.
At the first meeting of experts,the specific role that the UN-SPIDER programme could play in the context of crowdsource mapping for preparedness and emergency response was extensively discussed.
Finally, the experts summarized the main questions the crowdsourcing community was asking regarding access and use of geospatial data, stressing that those same issues were the onesthat had to be solved in order to ensure an increased use of space-based technologies in support of crowdsource mapping.
The"Ignite" talks proved to be crucial for an understanding of crowdsource mapping, of the roles and activities of the different communities and of various initiatives and opportunities.
The UN-SPIDER staff also provided support to allow an expert from the National Disaster Management Office of Samoa to attend the second UN-SPIDER international meeting of experts on"crowdsource mapping for preparedness and emergency response.
Better understanding about the strengths and opportunities of the three communities(crowdsource mapping, disaster management and emergency response, and space technology) was considered helpful in this regard.
The crowdsource mapping community requested the disaster management and emergency response community to consider a direct communication channel and to define what categories of information and verification protocols were needed during an emergency format and typology.
The Expert Meeting took note of the fact that various findings from the first two meetings on crowdsource mapping were reiterated during the third Expert Meeting and hence are reflected again in the present report.
Bringing together the three communities(crowdsource mapping, disaster management and emergency response, and space technology) to share information about their areas of expertise provided an opportunity to better understand the questions being asked and how space-based technologies could contribute to answering them.
This activity contributed to the consolidation of the UN-SPIDER International Meeting of Experts on Crowdsource Mapping for Disaster Management and Emergency Response, held in Vienna from 3 to 5 December 2012 see paras. 21-23 above.
The discussions targeted opportunities for making space-based information available for disaster risk reduction and emergency response, including access and use, as well as further involvement of existing mechanisms to ensure increased coordination andcooperation among all three communities crowdsource mapping, disaster management and emergency response, and space technology.