Creating an Android app for camp survey mapping through GPS and a rule-based toolset that reflects the international standards established by Sphere, UNHCR, MSF, the USAID Field Operations Guide, and OpenStreetMap.
The donated camp land perimeter will be traversed for GPS map generation, then internal resources will be tentatively placed in a manner reflecting standards. Examples include:
AdminCenter
Gates
Water sites
Tents
Latrines
Vegetable gardens
Food distribution
Medical clinic
...and so forth
and additional criteria established by the host nation or local priorities can be integrated.
The app will take advantage of external feed that provide information on imagery, climate, water table, geology, hazards, and will be dominantly icon-driven, minimizing the need for language literacy.
The app will be written in Scala, with particular attention to visually intuitive mapping and export capabilities to PDFs and GIS layers.
Bryn Keller is the dominant coder.
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