Blueprint for Baseline Data

Currently Sahana doesn't store any baseline data on Populations, etc.

This would be useful to help planning.

Some of these are available in Wikipedia from published Censuses:

• Projects/Advanced#WikipediaLocations

UN Common Operational Datasets

• Guardian: OCHA
• Source: Government
• ​http://giist.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/cods-1nov10.pdf
• ​http://oneresponse.info/resources/imtoolbox/publicdocuments/IASC%20Guidelines%20on%20Common%20Operational%20Datasets%20in%20Disaster%20Preparedness%20and%20Response%201%20Nov.%202010.pdf

Humanitarian Profile

(disaggregated by admin level and populated place)

• Internally Displaced
• Non-displaced affected
• Host family/resident community affected
• Refugee
• Dead
• Injured
• Missing

Population Statistics

• Total population by admin level (individuals)
• Total population by admin level (Number of Households)
• Age
• Sex
• Average family size by admin level
• Unique identifier

Sources

• GPWv3: ​http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/gpw/

Administrative Boundaries

(Geographic) Admin Level 1-4

• Unique identifier (P-Code)
• Name

Sources

• UserGuidelinesGISData

Populated Places

(Geographic)

• Unique identifier (P-Code)
• Names
• Size classification
• Population statistics
• Status if capital of administrative division
• Type (Village, spontaneous settlement, collective center, planned settlement)

Sources

• NGA: ​http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/country_files.html

Transportation Network

(Geographic)

• Roads (Classified by size)
• Railways
• Airports/helipads
• Seaports

Sources

• OpenStreetMap: ​http://downloads.cloudmade.com
• Google MapMaker: ​https://services.google.com/fb/forms/mapmakerdatadownload/
• ​http://ourairports.com
• ​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFIF

Hydrology

(Geographic)

• Rivers (Classified by size)
• Water bodies

Hypsogrophy

(Geographic)

• Elevation
• Resolution

Sources

• SRTMv3: ​http://srtm.csi.cgiar.org

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