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Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and UNHCR work together to empower refugees and hosting communities in Uganda
Uganda is the center of the world's fastest growing refugee crisis: every day around 2,000 people stream across Uganda's borders fleeing famine, drought and...
Sharing Experiences OSM Mapping in Four Countries: Armenia, Bangladesh, Fiji and the Philippines
*Guest Blog: Colleen Curran GeoInformatics Center, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)* Throughout 2016 the GeoInformatics Center, a research center at the Asian Institute of Technology...
Field mapping organizer reaches first major milestone
We've just finalized our first major milestone in the development of a new tool to improve how the HOT community organizes field mapping. Field...
1 MONTH til the HOT Summit 2017 in Ottawa, Ontario!
The HOT SUMMIT 2017 is less than one month away! There's still time to register to be sure you don't miss the exciting talks,...
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HOT and Heidelberg Institution for Geoinformation Technology Collaborations
We’re pleased to announce we’ve recently formalised our partnership with the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) at GIScience Heidelberg University. HOT and HeiGIT...
Making HOT’s Design Experience Sizzle
Updates on our design strategy progress Over the past few months, we’ve started a process to analyze and review HOT’s look and feel across...
LEGIT Completes Field Mapping in Three Cities in Liberia
As part of the Local Empowerment for Government Inclusion and Transparency (or LEGIT) project, funded by USAID, HOT and DAI teamed up to map...
OpenStreetMap for Rural Development and Poverty Eradication
In August 1-4, HOT Indonesia, represented by its Communications Specialist, had the opportunity to attend Regional Expert Meeting for rural development and poverty eradication...
Crowd2Map Tanzania: putting rural Tanzania on the map with the help of a HOT Microgrant
*Guest blog - Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map* Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project aiming to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015,...
From the map to the field: HOT trains MSF and refugees in field data collection - Uganda
On the 12th of July, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) in Uganda, under the Crowdsourcing Non-Camp Refugee Data program, funded by United States Department...
Three Hundred Students to Map for Flood Resilience in Dar es Salaam
November 7th & 8th marked the beginning of a new era for Ramani Huria - a project that over the past year has brought...
State of the Map Africa: the first conference
*Guest blog - Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map* It was a great privilege to present Crowd2Map at the first State of the Map Africa...
HOT Supports Community Driven Open Data: Ger Community Mapping Center, Mongolia
Guest blog: Enkhtungalag of Ger Community Mapping Center, Mongolia, who are the beneficiaries of a 2017 HOT Microgrant. Mongolia is considered one...
Bringing Remote Mapping to the Field
Following the preliminary results of both mapathons in Gulu, Northern Uganda, Istanbul and Kampala (World Refugee Day), HOT, and other community volunteers deployed information...
Volunteers in Uganda and Turkey Rally to Support Refugees on World Refugee Day
What connects Kampala and Istanbul? You might be thinking that Kampala and Istanbul are worlds apart, but volunteers in both cities rallied around a...
