Open Map Lebanon

Hi everyone - particularly those of you currently living in Lebanon! 🇱🇧 We’ve been having some conversations around Solar Energy and would really appreciate it if you could complete this short anonymous survey🌞🔋:

👉 https://forms.gle/oPb64mb9PiTaA6n27

Our initial aim is to assess people’s awareness on & interest in solar energy in Lebanon, share the data publicly and reach out to solution providers depending on the responses that we get.

We’d love to know what you think - even if you can’t take the survey / aren’t based in Lebanon atm 🙂 So please share your thoughts with us, thank you!

OML Survey - Solar Energy in Lebanon (Oct 2021) Assessing People’s Awareness on & Interest in Solar Energy in Lebanon

Today and every day since August 4th 2020, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who has been affected by the Beirut blast, and those who have been taken from us.

Our Open Map Lebanon community was created to help relief efforts and to advocate for data transparency and accountability. We will keep working to build a more stable tomorrow for Lebanon.

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Interested in understanding the socio-economic impact of the Beirut blast on surrounding neighborhoods? Check out some work the UNDP Accelerator Labs team in collaboration with Matthew Ng, Lilian Abou Zeki, and Melda Salhab from our community:

https://www.lb.undp.org/content/lebanon/en/home/accelerator-labs/socio-economic-impact-assessment/households---vulnerability-and-accessibility.html

Their insightful study offers a suggestion as to how Beirut’s neighborhood could look like when taking into account the population and the city’s street network. ‬

‪The exploration is based on a compilation of spatial data processing techniques including population analysis, u‬rban morphology, & accessibility analysis.

‪Note - under ‘Households Level’ in the menu:
• The ‘Vulnerability’ section with the interactive map data story highlights which neighborhoods are the most vulnerable from a household or a small business perspective.
• The ‘Accessibility’ section provides interactive visualizations of accessibility to hospitals and schools in Beirut.
• The ‘Neighborhood Insights’ section allows you to interactively explore the data for Medawar, Achrafieh, Bachoura, Zoukak el-Blatt, and Remeil.
• The ‘What defines a neighborhood’ section suggests an alternative to our neighborhood boundaries by using machine learning on street network and population data.

Join us for a Roundtable Discussion about Remote Sensing on Monday 12th, 5pm (Beirut time).

🛰 We’ll talk about how global datasets can be used to help with data scarcity in Lebanon, focusing on which problems can be solved & how.

💬 Zoom Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/98785311514?pwd=UTZJU01mN3VScVJHVW4wOFBBOFRHQT09

📣 Call for Participants - Missing Maps!

The Lebanese Red Cross 🇱🇧 along with volunteers from the German Red Cross 🇩🇪 are mapping Matn District's infrastructure and buildings.

They are looking for volunteers to help with remote mapping. Knowledge of Lebanon can help with quality assurance. If successful, this project will be rolled out to more areas.

👉 Interested? More about the project here:
https://tasks.hotosm.org/projects/10426

Join us tomorrow at 4pm (Beirut time) with l'Institut français du Proche-Orient where Melda Salhab will be talking about Open Map Lebanon, our experience with data collection and why it is important to have local public data in Lebanon:

Webinar Link: https://www.ifporient.org/urban-space-inventory-lebanon/

🆕 COVID-19 Test Scanner Alert! 🦠

Our very own Sherif Maktabi has just released this tool to help you find the nearest, cheapest and fastest COVID test near you:
https://covidlb.pory.app/

📍 It compiles a list of all test centers, clinics and labs available in Lebanon and recognized by the Ministry of Public Health. Prices and location have been collected directly from the sources.

👉 All you have to do is filter by city, turnaround time, test location, certificate, and / or test type, and the results will appear below!

Lebanon COVID-19: Observations from Movement Data, by Maroun Bou Sleiman:

“As seen here, the initial response to state of emergency measures varies between regions: There is a general degradation in ‘compliance’ as judged by decreased immobility. And some regions are almost back to normal, pre-lockdown levels.”

The data is open to all & can be found via: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/movement-range-maps

More information here:
https://dataforgood.fb.com/

🙌 Thank you all for joining us for the Beirut Recovery Map demo!

🗺 The map is available on beirutrecovery.org

👉 If you would like to join our community or get in touch, please visit our website: openmaplebanon.org

IT’S NEXT MONDAY! We're excited to share with you the largest mapping of building damage, repair and recovery since the August 4th Beirut explosion.

Join us to discover the map's features and insights. Meet the team behind the work and the lessons we learned.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beirut-recovery-map-demo-day-tickets-130315219329?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch&keep_tld=1

The demo will be presented by Bruno Sousa who’s a GIS Technologist & Researcher at the Center for Research Computing’s Spatial Studies Lab at Rice University, and Sherif Maktabi who’s co-founder of Open Map Lebanon & Product Manager for Electric Vehicles at Michelin Masternaut.

A couple of snaps from Workshop III - OpenStreetMap Fundamentals, with Marc Farra & Majd Al-Shihabi

In this session, we learned the basics of OpenStreetMap, we added a building to OSM, downloaded a map of our neighbourhood, and visualized map information from Lebanon such as accessible places, coffee shops in Beirut and the wildfire response.

Thank you all for joining us - we hope you enjoyed it!

From Workshop II - Open Data & ArcGIS Hub: Collaborating and Engaging With Your Community

Insightful tutorial by Hassan Mahmoud from ESRI Lebanon:
By using ArcGIS Hub you can create and share data publicly!

The process is free with ArcGIS online subscription.

FINAL WORKSHOP OF THE DAY - JOIN US!

It's time to get creative with Marc Farra & Majd Al-Shihabi from Open Map Lebanon!

Let's talk about OpenStreetMap, the open & free map of the world. In this workshop, you'll learn how to make your own maps to be printed or shared on the web!

17:00 - 18:00 EET
https://balamanduni.webex.com/mw3300/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&siteurl=balamanduni&service=6&rnd=0.40427474502371596&main_url=https%3A%2F%2Fbalamanduni.webex.com%2Fec3300%2Feventcenter%2Fevent%2FeventAction.do%3FtheAction%3Ddetail%26%26%26EMK%3D4832534b00000004eadb02f27feb71f8ba4659ef60558448f3432759164497900dbb94c153b42e9f%26siteurl%3Dbalamanduni%26confViewID%3D177256248208525333%26encryptTicket%3DSDJTSwAAAATWCkK5jkWJBDLC_nXuz8_beCi4epNdXOpaffktW1-v4Q2%26

ALL attendees will receive a certificate of attendance!

1st Workshop by Roy Massaad of GeoSpatialMinds:

A comprehensive technical overview for operating drones that can be used with great accuracy, safety, and cost-effectiveness, even in challenging conditions such as steep landings or difficult terrain.

Recorded sessions will all be shared soon, for those of you who weren't able to join us today!

STARTING IN 10 MIN!

Workshop I: 100% Success Rate in Drone Operation Even in Challenging Conditions by Roy Massaad from GeoSpatialMinds

14:30 - 16:00 EET
Link for the session: http://bit.ly/BeirutBlastWSIII

Remember ALL attendees will receive a certificate of attendance!

Meet virtually with Cisco Webex. Anytime, anywhere, on any device. Simple, modern video meetings for everyone on the world's most popular and trusted collaboration platform.

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Get ready for our series of Online Workshops with experts from
GeoSpatialMinds, ESRI Lebanon & Open Map Lebanon!

If you’re interested in participating, please register here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/manage/events/126703087345/online-event

Links to each workshop can be found in the confirmation email!