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HOT and Sonje Ayiti Organisation are enhancing Haitian communities by leveraging open geospatial data. This collaboration equips local students with essential mapping skills, enabling them to contribute to disaster management and development efforts. Through this initiative, a new generation of mappers is being cultivated, enhancing community resilience amid Haiti’s socio-political challenges.

For over 15 years, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been helping users access OpenStreetMap (OSM) data through the Export Tool, an easy interface that allows downloads in popular spatial data formats. This week we introduce two new tile formats and the ability to get User Info + Timestamps.

Wildfires in South America are consuming thousands of hectares of crops and forests in conservation areas in countries such as Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and others. Let's learn about the relief efforts emerging from open mapping communities.

Los incendios forestales en Sudamérica están consumiendo miles de hectáreas de sembríos y bosques de áreas de preservación en países como Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador y otros. Conozcamos los esfuerzos de ayuda que van surgiendo desde las comunidades de cartografía abierta.

Each quarter, we feature one of our all-star staff members in a Staff Spotlight Series. Staff featured in this Series have been peer-nominated for their superb performance and values-driven work. This quarter, we spotlight Kshitij Sharma, HOT's Product Owner for Map Data Access Services.

El proyecto Rutatón-Zamora, liderado por la Dirección de Movilidad del Municipio de Zamora, Codeando México y CoMapper, busca mapear colaborativamente las rutas de transporte público en Zamora y sus municipios vecinos. Con el apoyo de HOT, se han generado datos precisos sobre rutas y unidades de transporte, facilitando a las autoridades locales tomar decisiones más informadas para optimizar el transporte público y mejorar la accesibilidad en la región.

Discover how our collaboration with the University of the West Indies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, and the Caribbean Islands Higher Education Resilience Consortium is enhancing resilience planning in Coulibistrie, Dominica, through the use of drone imagery.

Climate change has led to an increase in wildfire season length, wildfire frequency, and burned areas around the world. The wildfire season has lengthened in many areas due to factors including warmer springs, longer summer dry seasons, and drier soils and vegetation. Given this context, people from the Alpa Corral region in Córdoba, Argentina, who want to protect our native forests and towns, met from July 26 to 28 to see how the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s End-to-End Open Mapping Tech can help people prepare themselves to face disasters together.

As damage reaches record levels in the Gaza Strip, expert volunteers coordinated by HOT have recently completed a 5-month project to create the most comprehensive building footprints dataset available for Gaza using OpenStreetMap. Looking at pre-October 2023 imagery, this effort added a net total of 59,223 buildings to the dataset and improved thousands of existing features. In this post, we share how our work in Gaza illustrates our approach to open mapping in conflict zones, and examines the potential role of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) in the sector.

Estudiantes y docentes de la secundaria del CPEM-13 en San Martín de los Andes, Argentina, emplean herramientas de mapeo abierto para abordar problemas viales mediante el programa Open Mapping for All, facilitando la identificación de problemas y la búsqueda de soluciones.

The HOT Caribbean Programme team led a series of mapathons with training components focused on the use of OpenStreetMap, and other field and remote mapping tools. The aim was to build capacity among the cadre of mappers in the Caribbean while also promoting mapping for anticipatory action. This is expected to positively impact the Caribbean’s capacity to use digital maps for disaster preparedness and response.

Nuestra iniciativa en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana, con el LAC Hub y OpenLabEc, capacita a comunidades en mapeo de riesgos de desastres usando OSM y Mapillary. Las sesiones en ciudades como Tena y Macas permiten mejorar la gestión de riesgos naturales y la calidad de vida comunitaria mediante datos geográficos.

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is excited to improve the humanitarian usability of open spatial data through OpenStreetMap (OSM) as part of H2H’s Anticipatory...

Through the Open Mapping for All program, teachers and students at an educational institution in Argentine Patagonia use Open Mapping tools to document, recognize, and improve school physical infrastructure while connecting with their environment and cultural values.

Each quarter, we feature one of our all-star staff members in a Staff Spotlight Series. Staff featured in this Series have been peer-nominated for their superb performance and values-driven work. This quarter, we spotlight Carter Draper, our Programs Senior Manager at the West and Northern Africa Open Mapping Hub.