Mappers
tl;dr: If you are a mapper in Bangladesh, or interested in Bangladesh, and want
to help map garment factories in OSM to provide a real comprehensive
transparent picture of what's going on, sign up the OKFN data expedition on
October 18-20. In Bangladesh, contact Nurunnaby Chowdhury
<[email protected]> for information on the local venue.
Longer:
The Open Knowledge Foundation is organizing its second Data Expedition, October
18-20, to collect and link data on the global garment supply chain.
Activity promoting *real* transparency has been increasing since the tragic
garment factory accidents earlier this year. Putting together a comprehensive
picture of the sector can hopefully bring greater accountability and real
rights to workers.
http://schoolofdata.org/2013/10/02/data-expedition-garment-factories/
Mapping is a crucial part. OpenStreetMap's potential here is to map the actual
geographic context of these factories, and link/export that geography to
databases of customers/brands, ownership, safety records, etc. We're talking
actual physical building foot print, # of floors, type of building
(multipurpose vs single factory, etc). This needs help from both mappers
anywhere, to work through the existing databases and figure out what needs
survey; and folks on the ground, to do survey of at least a node for factories,
which can be associated with a footprint from satellite imagery.
To get a sense of the source data for the expedition: New data on 1500
factories in Bangladesh, which have joined the safety accord was supposed to be
released today.
http://www.industriall-union.org/bangladesh-safety-accord-publishes-unprecedented-wealth-of-factory-data.
OKFN has started the scraping process here:
https://github.com/psychemedia/ScoDa-GarmentsDataExpedition/blob/master/data/accord.csv
If you are based in Bangladesh and want to get involved, Nurunnaby Chowdhury
<[email protected]> is organizing there. For anyone anywhere, Anders
Pedersen <[email protected]> is organizing internationally. I would
really like to be part of this myself, but will be offline for family very soon.
Best!
Mikel
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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