Thank you for the support Laura and Heather, and cheers for clarifying that
OSM is not the appropriate place to capture incident data Russell, Eric and
Benoit.
I'm looking at Ushahidi and uMap as options, based on the recommendations
from Paul, Russell and Jean-Guilhem and will be in touch with
Hi Mhairi and Russ,
Yes, Ushahidi (with instances hosted for example at crowdmap.com) is an
alternative to uMap. From my point of view, having used both on various
cases, the main criterion to choose between the two if whether the
general public will be entering and locating directly the incident
Hello Mhairi,
For a map of these incidents, on OSM background to locate them, you
could use uMap, eg:
http://umap.openstreetmap.fr
You could report the information related to incidents in the title and
text associated with the markers on the map. It is even possible to
include images, with the
Hi Mhairi,
This might be a good case for building an Ushahidi instance
(https://www.ushahidi.com/) – as with Quakemaps.org that our partners at KLL
built, the type of data (incident time, place, type) could be similar to
reports of response needs. I think this type of data is not
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