How HOT is responding to the tragic February 2023 earthquake in Turkey and Syria, how to get data, and how that data is being used.

Thank you to everyone in the open mapping community who supported the response to the Turkey and Syria earthquakes. You have made a vital contribution.

If you are an experienced validator…

Due to the amount of mapping that was conducted in support of this response, there is still plenty of validation to be done for the projects in this campaign.

If you are an advanced mapper and would like to join the HOT Global Validators Team, please fill in your details here.

Where to find data:

• Download datasets of the affected areas from HDX. Datasets are regularly updated with new data from the OSM mapping above.

• Visit the Turkey and Syria Earthquake Response Activation page for more details and statistics on the mapping response.

Learn more about our approach to data quality in this earthquake response.

How is the data being used?

Emergency responders have shared how they have found OSM data invaluable.

And we have shared numerous other use cases via our blog and OSM diaries:

• Turkey And Syria Response: A Month After The Earthquake
• Using OSM Data in the Turkey and Syria Earthquake Response
• OpenStreetMap data in action: earthquake response