About Migra Watch Map
From MigraWatch
The MigraWatch map is a collaborative data mapping project of migrawatch participants. All wiki pages that use the mvmap tag have their content listed on MigraWatch Map page.
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How to Participate
At the moment just sign up and confirm you email address. In the near future (if vandalism becomes an issue) we will have a secondary approval process. All contributions should be backed up by links to the original sources. Unsubstantiated reports will be calasified as such untill they are properly refrenced. For submitted media be specific about time and place it was captured.
mvMap Markers
Mv map works by inserting the following after the summary in a wiki article. (note everything above the mvMap tag will be listed in the mvMap page when the user click on the marker
<mwMap> location: 42.090619,-76.800714 icon_type: detention </mwMap>
icon types currently supported are: support, enforcement, detention and raid
To determin the numerical location from an address you can use this address to latitude Longitude finder
Example Work Flow
First we do a google or indybay search in this case we find an indybay article about the raid that happened in Santa Cruz County on September 7th.
We would then visit http://perso.orange.fr/universimmedia/geo/loc.htm and lookup the area in question. Note you can drag the red marker to an arbitrary position if you know the area but not the exact address. In this case we drag the icon to the beach flats and note the Latitude and longitude (36.966215,-122.02124)
We then make a new page by typing in the following url:
http://www.migrawatch.org/wiki/index.php?title=Raid in Santa Cruz County on September 7th 2006
we would then go about making the page by inputing the following:
A raid took place in Santa Cruz County, CA, September 7th, 2006, 107 people where detained. Source: [http://indybay?article_url Indybay] <mwMap> location: 36.966215,-122.02124 icon_type: raid </mwMap> [[Category:Raid]] [[Category:California]]
You would then click preview to see if the page appears as expected. Once you click save the raid icon will show up on the map.
This is just an example obviously the description could be more detailed to include images and more links etc. Also it may be applicable to more categories new categories can be created simply by writing them in as if they existed already. At a minimum we should try and put each map data point in its icon type category & the state it happened in.
Adding info about Markers (icon types)
Our initial data is relatively sparse. A lot of information is publicly available via a few google searches. We have focused the initial data to the following categories. For each of these categories we aim to document the following:
Immigrant Support Centers
Icon type: support
Maps out legal and humanitarian support network for immigrants and their families.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Facility
Icon type: enforcement
Maps out ICE regional offices.
Facility Known to Detain Immigrants
Icon type: detention
Maps out the prisons being used to detain immigrants
ICE Raid on Immigrant Communities
Icon type: raid
Maps out raids on immigrant communities over the past few years.
Ideas for Future Markers
Contracts
Icon Name: contract Follows the private profit in mass detention and border security.
Representatives
icon name: representative Maps out the representatives that support highly represive immigration policies and detention & boarder expenditures. Should be interesting to see the level of correlation between the location of these politicians and the location of these private detention contracts.
