Tech HOT Spot
Field Mapping Tasking Manager (FMTM)
Collaboration and communication among key players are critical to a successful field mapping campaign and data collection effort. Leveraging the right tools, such as the Field Mapping Tasking Manager (FMTM), can significantly enhance coordination and streamline communication among team members, improving field survey efforts and making them more efficient and accurate.
Field Mapping Tasking Manager (FMTM)
Collaboration and communication among key players are critical to a successful field mapping campaign and data collection effort. Leveraging the right tools, such as the Field Mapping Tasking Manager (FMTM), can significantly enhance coordination and streamline communication among team members, improving field survey efforts and making them more efficient and accurate.
HOT Export Tool: try out the new features!
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is more than the basemap you see on osm.org or in other geospatial services. The database behind the map is full of crowdsourced spatial data with systemized tagging that translates into attributes in GIS systems. For data analysts and cartographers who want to access datasets from OSM for use in QGIS or other similar applications, HOT’s export tool just got much more helpful!
Tasking Manager: Insights from the NET Promoter Score Survey
Tasking Manager stands as a key solution in the realm of collaborative mapping, empowering users to contribute to meaningful projects on OpenStreetMap. As part of our commitment to continuous improvement of the tool, we conducted a Net Promoter Score (NPS) survey at the end of December 2023 to delve into the sentiments and experiences of our Tasking Manager users. The invaluable feedback, received from 59 users globally, has opened a window into user satisfaction, areas of strength, and opportunities for enhancement.
HOT CommunityWG x Tech&InnovationWG Communications Skillshare Series - what a blast to start the year!
THANK YOU FOR JOINING our Communications Skillshare Series!
fAIr - what to expect in 2024!
Learn about the most recent updates on HOT’s AI-assisted mapping service (fAIr) and what to expect in 2024!
Data for sustainable development: The Data Festival 2023
The Data Festival recently held in Uruguay was the opportunity for the Open Mapping Hub to introduce to organizations and institutions open cartography applications and its humanitarian approach.
HOT Tasking Manager - Welcome to NAXA
We are very excited to announce that we will be working with NAXA, who will provide software development support for the evolution of the HOT Tasking Manager.
HOT and CDEMA sign agreement to enhance disaster management in the Caribbean with collaborative mapping
HOT and CDEMA -the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency- have signed a collaboration agreement to strengthen CDEMA's geospatial technological capabilities. Learn the details.
OSM Hackfest 2023 - Call for Partnerships
Over the past two years, Open Mapping Hub - Asia Pacific (OMH-AP) has been working on it’s vision to create a sustainable OpenStreetMap (OSM) ecosystem in the Asia-Pacific region. And for this reason, we are planning the OSM Hackfest as a regional level event in 2023. We need your support in order to do this and we are seeking partnerships for organizing the first ever Asia Pacific OSM regional Hackfest.
hot_tech_talk | Takeaways from our open AI challenge
Over the past few years, HOT has taken a leadership role in experimenting with, and facilitating for, the application of open-source and fair artificial intelligence in mapping. What is the status? Well, let me tell you: we are only a few months away now from launching our open AI-mapping service - fAIr. As we speak, around 50 AI engineers from the Omdena community are crunching code with us to narrow down which of the models will give the most optimal AI-assisted mapping for our communities.
hot_tech_talk | fAIr: AI-assisted mapping
Here is all you need to know about HOT’s open AI-assisted mapping service: fAIr.
Reflections from attending the OpenSourceSummit Europe, September 2022
Hello lovely community members and tech enthusiasts!! I want to share some of my reflections from attending the Open Source Summit in Dublin in mid-September for the very first time! I categorised them into four areas that I hope will be useful for our community! If you are an open source developer, a maintainer of an open source project, or somebody who is interested in getting more involved with open source projects, then this post is for you! Hope you enjoy it - please reach out to me if you have questions(petya.kangalova@hotosm.org)
hot_tech attending SoTM& FOSS4G highlights
It will be hard to capture the connections, learning, excitement and the feeling of community during State of the Map and FOSS4G in a blog, but here are a few highlights and photos on what happened during the various days! Hope you enjoy it!
hot_tech team in Florence, August 2022
We are excited to meet the community and share all that’s happening with the hot_tech team at State of the Map and FOSS4G starting next week!
HOT Tasking Manager Collective: update on the journey so far- July 2022
Thank you to all the contributors and participants in the Tasking Manager Collective. Hope you enjoy reading some of the highlights since the start of our collaboration with the Kathmandu Living Labs team.
Data Principles
At HOT, open mapping communities and program teams face unique challenges in how we work with data: