MIGRATE: a FOSS Web Mapping application for educating and raising awareness about migration flows in Europe

This presentation was given at FOSS4G Europe 2017 conference (http://europe.foss4g.org/2017) held in Paris on July 18-22, 2017. It presents MIGRATE – MIGRation pATterns in Europe (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/migrate), a game-based Web Mapping application to educate and raise awareness about the phenomenon of migration. The presentation shows the architecture and logic of the game, and the results obtained aftern analyzing 15k+ games played by users. The application is released under the open source European Union Public License (EUPL) and is fully based on open data. More information is available on the paper written for the conference, available at https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W2/51/2017.This application was developed within the MYGEOSS project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Data used within MIGRATE were provided by OpenStreetMap, UNHCR, IOM, The Migrants' Files project and Eurostat