Table 1 Humanitarian geocoded data sources
From: Beyond mapping: a case for geospatial analytics in humanitarian health
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO): geocoded data with global administrative layers. http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home | |
UN Program on Global Geospatial Information Management, hosting agency for the UN Committee of Experts on Global Geographic Information which explicitly calls for a “stronger interoperability and integration between geospatial information and statistics” and for “combining statistics with spatial data” maintains a working group for such [10]. https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/ | |
UN Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) maintains a portal for users from a wide range of disciplines, including humanitarian response http://geonetwork.nl | |
Mapping units within other UN agencies: WHO, World Food Program, UNFPA | |
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Data Portal: http://data.unhcr.org/imtoolkit/chapters/view/mapping/lang:eng | |
Centre for Research and Epidemiology in Disasters (CRED) hosts the CEDAT database which includes geocoded nutrition and mortality data from humanitarian non-governmental organizations. http://www.cedat.be | |
OpenStreetMap (OSM), the ‘wiki’ of geodata, open sourced. http://openstreetmapdata.com. ArcMap (ESRI) now has a tool to edit and publish within OSM | |
Humanitarian Data Exchange: https://data.humdata.org |