Join Michael Makokha from FAO Somalia, Benni Herfort from Heigit and Isabell Klipper from the German Red Cross in this special two-part humanitarian open mapping session.

Michael will talk us through the work of FAO SWALIM and specifically a recent collaboration with HOT's Open Mapping Hub - East and Southern Africa on El Niño early warning and anticipatory action in Somalia.

Benni and Isabell will introdcue us to the Sketch Map Tool, a low-tech, open-source and free of charge application which can be used to support the digitization process of local community mapping. OpenStreetMap basemaps, layouted and created with the tool, can be printed out and used for analogue and offline data collection to map the communities experience and perception of risk in their neighbourhood. Uploading a picture or scan of those paper maps, the tool identifies and selects the marked information and provides them, georeferenced, in different geodata files for further usage and analysis in the own preferred GIS system.

** This was previously scheduled to be a hands on session focusing on the Field Mapping Tasking Manager but due to unfortunate visa issues, our presenter, Ivan Gayton, can no longer be physically at the conference.