Sophia Chen
Hailing from Montréal (Tiohtià:ke), Sophia is the National GIS Officer for Community Mapping at the Canadian Red Cross, where she leads initiatives spanning Missing Maps, open data integration, geospatial data readiness, volunteer engagement, and partner capacity building. Working at the intersection of people, place, and data, she draws on training in physical geography, geomatics engineering, urban planning and sociology to advance inclusive, mixed-methods mapping that strengthens humanitarian decision-making and community resilience.
Session
This session examines mapping and tagging of coastal landforms in OpenStreetMap for humanitarian purposes and community resilience building. Using case studies of common topologies in Canada and Europe, we will surface shared challenges and collectively shape solutions, workflows, and documentation to strengthen future practice.