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Building Resilience through Open Mapping: HOT Caribbean Microgrant Recipients Tackle Flood Risks

Louise Mathurin Serieux

7 October, 2024

Saint Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago

HOT Caribbean Microgrant Programme is enhancing local communities in Trinidad and Tobago and Saint Lucia to build resilience against flood risks through open mapping. Learn about community-led disaster risk reduction, youth engagement, and geospatial data's role in enhancing disaster preparedness in the Caribbean.

HOT and Sonje Ayiti Join Forces to Enhance Haitian Communities Through Open Mapping

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.

Wendy Delva - 27 September, 2024

Global

Export Tool Update: New vector tiles format and improved metadata

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.

Kshitij Sharma, Claudio de los Reyes - 26 September, 2024

Global

South America in Flames: Fighting Fires with Open Mapping

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.

25 September, 2024

Global

Sudamérica en Llamas: Combatiendo los Incendios con Cartografía Abierta

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.

25 September, 2024

Global

Staff Spotlight Series: Kshitij Sharma

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.

Dana Gallaty, Kshitij Sharma - 19 September, 2024

Global

Implementación de Mapeo Abierto en la Gestión Municipal: Proyecto de Mapeo Colaborativo de Transporte Público en Zamora

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.

Mariana Marín, Codeando México - 19 September, 2024

Mexico

Boosting Caribbean Resilience: Collaborative Efforts using Drone Imagery in Coulibistrie, Dominica

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.

Mariana Marín - 17 September, 2024

Dominica

On the Front Line of Climate Change: End-to-End Open Mapping Tech for Wildfires

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.

Emilio Mariscal - 11 September, 2024

Argentina

The Power of Volunteers: Remote Mapping in Gaza and Other Conflict Areas

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.

Jessica Pechmann - 20 August, 2024

Palestinian Territory

El Proyecto Bache: Mapeando una Problemática Ciudadana en San Martín de Los Andes

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.

Luis Miguel Bande Jaramillo - 14 August, 2024

Argentina

Let’s Map the Caribbean: Training and Mapathon Series Piloted!

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.

Arnelle Isaac, Louise Mathurin Serieux - 9 August, 2024

Global

Creando Capacidades Mapeadoras en la Amazonía Ecuatoriana

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.

Juan Arellano Valdivia - 7 August, 2024

Ecuador

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team joins the H2H Anticipatory Action Accelerator

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...

Jessica Pechmann - 6 August, 2024

Global

Open Mapping Experiences at the Rural Secondary School "San Ignacio"

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.

Luis Miguel Bande Jaramillo - 15 July, 2024

Argentina

Staff Spotlight Series: Carter Draper

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.

8 July, 2024

Global