Township Level Mapping Project
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This document summarizes a project to improve township-level mapping in Southeast Myanmar. The project aims to identify important villages, clinics, and schools by working with local organizations and filling gaps in existing datasets. Through collaborations, over 400 additional villages have been added. However, more work is still needed, including verifying village information and adding locations of health and education facilities by working with more community groups.
Township Level Mapping Project
- 2. PROJECT PURPOSE: to improve township level mapping of villages and social services in the townships of South East Myanmar/ Burma through identifying significant villages, clinics, and schools from existing datasets, and from face to face meetings with CBOs
- 3. COLLABORATING WITH KSWDC ON TOWNSHIP MAPPING
- 4. FILLING IN THE GAPS WITH KORD ON TOWNSHIP MAPPING PROJECT
- 5. DIGGING IN WITH CIDKP ON TOWNSHIP MAPPING PROJECT
- 11. VIEWING DATA IN DIFFERENT FORMATS (E.G.,GOOGLE EARTH DEMO)
- 12. → A total of 467 villages in 28 townships and 5 states and regions in South East Myanmar/Burma have been identified & added to the original dataset Township Mapping Facts & Figures →Entire dataset for South East Myanmar/Burma currently has 5,371 villages
- 13. → The dataset is still in development with village names, locations and categories all needing further field verification before it can be released as a complete dataset But There’s Still Work to Do…. →We would like to add locations of health clinics and schools by collaborating with health & education CBOs And We Need Your Help →We still have not met with Shan groups to identify significant villages in Shan State
- 14. Thanks for Your Attention! Questions & Answers
Editor's Notes
- #2: As humanitarian access to the conflict affected areas in SE Myanmar increases, there’s a more pressing need to understand the lay of the land. Identifying significant villages and understanding what social services are currently available is key to better understanding the landscape and coordinating humanitarian efforts. Toward this end, TBC has initiated a township level mapping project with the help of an in-kind donation from iMMAP in the form of a GIS officer for 2.5 months to get the project off the ground. What I am presenting here today is the direct result of Helen Campbell’s work and I’d just like to thank her and acknowledge that I am only presenting her work.
- #3: This project is a community-informed effort to improve township level mapping of villages and social services in the conflict affected townships of SE Myanmar through the identification of significant villages and project areas from existing data sets and from face to face meetings with CBOs.
- #4: Helen and I started our data collection in MHS, where we met with field staff of KSWDC. Identifying significant villages is a very tedious task whereby we use both soft and hard copies of topographic maps to help better place and correct village location with the help of field workers who are from these areas. Nonetheless, by the end of the day in MHS, we were able to add about 100 villages to our existing data set.
- #5: We then traveled to MSR, where we met with KORD & CIDKP
- #6: And then continued our road trip down south to MST to meet with KHRG and CIDKP. With the help of KORD, CIDKP, and KHRG, we were able to identify and pinpoint over 300 villages in E. Bago and Kayin areas to add to our data set. We also met with MRDC, CIDKP, and Human Rights Foundation of Mon Land to collect data in Mon and Tanintharyi areas, yielding a total of 68 additional villages to our data set.
- #7: This map shows our data set of Kayin State before updating the data set. You can see that there are clear data gaps in some of these conflicted affected areas.
- #8: Now this map shows the same data set after augmenting the data set with local knowledge of villages in conflicted affected areas.
- #9: And this is just a side by side comparison of the before and after data sets for a different perspective. Keep in mind that this data set just shows Karen Areas; other areas that we have mapped are not shown here.
- #10: This maps shows the same data set at a more zoomed in view of Hpapun Township in Kayin State with a National Geographic base map to show the topography in relation to villages.
- #11: This slide shows the tabular data behind the village data set that we are working on. The tabular data behind the data set is really where the power of GIS lies. You’ll also notice that as we collected data, we asked the CBOs if they recognized the village by a different local name, and if so, we recorded that variation in the table here. Zoom into Local_Name field.
- #12: The data we are collecting may be exported to a more user friendly format, such as Google Earth, for those of you who do not have technical skills in mapping. Do demo.
- #13: So far, a total of 467 villages in 28 townships in 5 states and regions in SE Myanmar have been identified and added to the original data set. However, these villages still need to be further verified and assigned a p-code (if eligible) by working with the MIMU. The entire data set for SE Myanmar has 5,371 villages.
- #14: The data set is still very much under construction with village names, locations, and categories all needing further field verification before it can be released as a complete data set. We would still like to add the locations of existing social services by collaborating with health and education NGOs and CBOs. We still have not yet met with Shan CBOs to identify significant villages in the Shan Areas.
- #15: Thanks for your attention. Questions?