Syria Crisis

Sahana Eden is being setup to store, manage & display 3W (Who, What, Where) data for the Syria crisis to aid decision makers:

• ​http://syria.sahanafoundation.org

Register yourself or login as:

l: normaluser@example.com
p: testing

Coordination via Freenode IRC: #ohicodesprint

• Logs: ​http://logs.sahanafoundation.org/ohi

This is being done for the Open Humanitarian Initiative (OHI) hack week:

• ​http://gwob.org/the-open-humanitarian-initiative-code-sprint/

Requirements

• ​https://ohi.hackpad.com/Scenario-f4FCJFqnHPv

Data

For Syria & also Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan & Turkey:

• ​http://cod.humanitarianresponse.info

Here's what is available on the COD site that relates to demographics for the above countries. Not all are broken down per populated place within country.

Iraq

• Humanitarian profile
  • Refugees
• Security incidents

Jordan

• Humanitarian profile
  • Refugees
• Population
  • Major cities population
  • Population by governorate and gender
  • Total population by gender and population density for a subset of years from 1952 * 2010

Lebanon

• Humanitarian profile
  • Refugees
• Population
  • Population per populated place
  • # principal dwellings per populated place
  • Above dataset also includes polygons

Syria

• Humanitarian profile
  • Refugees
• Population (some info per category is in separate files, some in the census file)
  • Health
  • Nutrition
  • Education
  • Economy
  • Energy
  • Imports
  • Employment per trade, unemployment

Turkey

• Humanitarian profile
  • Refugees
• Population
  • Population and growth per populated place

For GIS data, all have:

• Admin boundaries
• Roads
• Rivers
• Bodies of water
• Populated places

Other GIS data per country:

Iraq

• Airports
• Railroads

Jordan

• Hospitals
• Gas stations
• Ports
• Railroads

Lebanon

• Hospitals
• Schools & Universities
• Railroads

Syria

• Airports
• Railroads
• Elevation

Tasks

• Setup Instance
• Setup Template
• Setup Menus
  • modules/templates/Syria/view/layout.html
• Front page design
  • Photos e.g. from ​http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c25d.html
  • Map
    • Also Map Icons for each Country and L1 like these would be great: ​https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/static/themes/DRMP/img/Aileu.png
• Add Data Models
  • Roads & Bridges to Transport module
  • Schools - just use org_facility or start a new module for Education?
• Extend Data Models
  • Coverage for msg_basestation
    • 2nd gis_location with Polygon selector to draw manually
    • Use Antenna height/strength, Frequency & Elevation Map to determine programmatically (like ​RadioMobile)
• Import Data
  • Locations: Admin Boundaries & P-codes (L1->L3 done for all countries except TR just to L2. PCodes for most)
    • http://eden.sahanafoundation.org/wiki/UserGuidelines/GIS/Data#CSV
    • ​https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/static/formats/s3csv/gis/location.csv
  • Demographics
    • ​https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/static/formats/s3csv/stats/demographic_data.csv
  • Refugees
    • probably stats_demographic_data for overall #s
    • Shelters: ​https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/static/formats/s3csv/cr/shelter.csv
  • Make this easier with Excel Import Wrapper - Dominic?
• Visualise Data - Max Shron interested to help with defining best way for users to see data
  • Maps
    • Example Styling for Demographics (print-friendly, colorblind-safe, 5 classes from Colorbrewer):
      • ​https://github.com/flavour/eden/blob/master/modules/templates/CRMT/gis_layer_feature.csv
    • Serve via GeoServer WMS?
      • ​http://lacrmt.sahanafoundation.org (same login as for Syria site)
  • Graphs
    • S3Report2
• Location Selector (probably best for Fran to do this)
  • add multi-country support to S3LocationSelectorWidget2
  • Support translations of hierarchy labels
• Improve Arabic translation (currently very poor for this template)