Phase-1 : To map the communities in Southeast Bangladesh (Part of Bandarban, Cox’s Bazar and Rangamati)

This was an unfunded pilot project run by the members of GroupMappers in Bangladesh. The study area was covered in most areas of Bandarban and a few areas of Rangamati and Cox’s Bazar districts in southeastern Bangladesh. The main objective of the study was to develop a simple, low cost and time efficient method of geospatial data collection. Therefore a group of people were deployed to extract communities from Google Earth those were selected during a technical workshop held on 15^th October 2017 at Cadet College Club in Dhaka, Bangladesh and formed a core expert group.  The study was completed on 15^th February 2018 and 3394 km² areas were accomplished during this study by the team.