Taro Ubukawa
Taro Ubukawa is a senior geospatial expert at the United Nations Geospatial Information Section. He is one of the co-leads of UN Vector Tile Toolkit and works for vector tile deployment in UN since December 2019. Before that, he worked for GIS data development in Japan for years.
Sessions
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is a United Nations peacekeeping mission for South Sudan, which became independent on 9 July 2011. UNMISS was established on 8 July 2011 by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1996 (2011) and as of March 2021, it is composed of 19,075 total deployed personnel including 14,222 troops; 217 experts on mission; 1,446 police personnel; 2,228 civilians; 387 staff officers and 388 UN Volunteers, where, it is headquartered in the South Sudanese capital of Juba.
Under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, UNMISS is therefore authorized to use all necessary means to implement its mandate which includes:
(a) Protection of civilians
(b) Creating conditions conducive to the delivery of humanitarian assistance
(c) Supporting the Implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and the Peace Process
(d) Monitoring, investigating, and reporting on violations of humanitarian and human rights law
The mission has decided to extend its public outreach activities in a different method by utilizing geospatial information and using open geospatial tools and data for showcasing some of its important activities in support of above-mentioned mandates, and for this purpose contracted a service provider through bidding exercise and procurement protocols.
In this general session talk, speaker(s) will give their presentations on below topics:
- UN Open GIS Initiative Background
- UNMISS GeoStories architecture, FOSS4G tools and data
- Preventing mis/dis-information by extending public outreach
- Review selected Geostories in support of UNMISS mandate
Vector tile has been one of the key topics in the web mapping. Thanks to the pioneers who have contributed a lot to open source development in the field of vector tile, we can now develop our geospatial information service with open source vector tile technique. UN Vector Tile Toolkit, or UNVT, was established in 2018 under the UN Open GIS Initiative, and has provided various tools to facilitate the production and use of vector tiles. UNVT grows with the global partnership among United Nations and various contributors, and now we have various experience in (1) producing, (2) styling, (3) hosting, (4) optimizing, and (5) consuming vector tiles.
In out talk, through introducing our experiences and lessons from selected projects, we will share how we can create vector tiles and their map application using open-source tools including UNVT. We will introduce our experiences such as vector tile production and update of the whole globe for UN purpose, development and use of our style tool named unvt/charites, development of an interface with Esri's geoportal, UNVT application in a sigle board PC (Raspberry Pi), development of storytelling map with UNVT, efforts of 3D visualization.
Resources
- UNVT Story telling workshop
- Slide https://speakerdeck.com/hfu/unvt-storytelling
- Recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVajhAUDLMs
- UNVT styling tool - Charites
- URL https://github.com/unvt/charites
- An example of usecase - charites use for editing esri based style
- UNVT selected resources
- unvt/equinox - use of UNVT in raspberry pi
- unvt/nanban - use of UNVT in Docker for windows user