Open Rootage Conflict Mapping

PATTRN is a novel opened upward sourced conflict mapping platform developed past times Goldsmiths University. The PATTRN platform allows anyone to practice an interactive map which tin live on used to part together with collate first-hand reports inward conflict or crisis situations.

The platform was showtime used past times Amnesty International inward end year's Gaza Platform. The platform was used past times Amnesty International to plot 2,700 attacks on Gaza past times State of Israel during the 2014 Gaza conflict. You tin every mo good sentiment the PATTRN platform inward activity inward Fortress Europe, a mapped visualization of the Migrant Files information set, together with Political Violence inward Africa, a visualization of the ACLED information set.

The platform itself tin live on downloaded from its GitHub repository. Once set-up PATTRN acts every mo a information aggregator together with mapped visualization platform. Users of your PATTRN projection tin together with hence contribute information nigh events amongst infinite together with fourth dimension coordinates, together with to add together tags, media together with content to those events.

The submitted information is automatically visualized on an interactive map which provides access to all the data. The mapped visualization tin every mo good include interactive charts together with filters which let users to explore patterns inside the data.

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