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MapMalawi’s Dzaleka Mapping Project- OSM Mapping for People Living in Protracted Crisis

18 June, 2022

Malawi

MapMalawi is a newly established non-governmental organisation (NGO), founded in December 2020 by two Malawian girls, Ndapile Mkuwu and Zola Manyungwa.

SiPetaniDKI: Urban Farming as a solution for climate change adaptation in Jakarta.

Originally published in IDN Times

Dhana Kencana, Adhitya Dido Widyanto - 6 June, 2022

Global

La cartographie en situation de conflit

Des événements et des expériences récentes, dont les événements survenus l'an dernier en Afghanistan et la guerre en Ukraine, ont incité HOT - et l'ensemble de la communauté de cartographie humanitaire - à réexaminer ce qui peut être fait dans le context de OpenStreetMap, sur le plan éthique et pratique, pour aider les populations touchées par des conflits.

Paul Uithol, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Jessica Pechmann, Ivan Buendía Gayton - 9 May, 2022

Global, Afghanistan, Ukraine

Mapping in Conflict

Recent events and experiences, including last year’s developments in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, have prompted HOT—and the wider humanitarian mapping community—to revisit what can be ethically and practically done to help people caught in conflict within the context of OSM.

Paul Uithol, Jessica Pechmann, Ivan Buendía Gayton, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula - 9 May, 2022

Global, Afghanistan, Ukraine

DRC et Haïti, un transfert de connaissances inter-communautaire

Lorsqu'il est devenu évident que le projet de collaboration entre HOT et l'organisation communautaire COSMHANNE en Haïti nécessitait un volet de formation technique OSM en français, la communauté OSM RDC est intervenue.

Muluba Bienvenu, Wendy Delva, Claire Halleux, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Pete Masters, Jackson Mumbere, Christian Muyaya, Adler Salvador - 3 May, 2022

Haiti

DRC x Haiti Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer

When it became clear that the collaborative project between HOT and the COSMHANNE community organisation in Haiti would need a technical OSM training component in French, the OSM DRC community stepped in.

Muluba Bienvenu, Wendy Delva, Claire Halleux, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Pete Masters, Jackson Mumbere, Christian Muyaya, Adler Salvador - 3 May, 2022

Haiti

New open mapping actors in Ecuador

The collaboration of experienced free culture activists with new mappers is renewing the landscape of collaborative cartography in Ecuador.

27 April, 2022

Global

Nuevos actores del mapeo abierto en Ecuador

La colaboración de experimentados activistas de la cultura libre con nuevos mapeadores esta renovando el panorama de la cartografía colaborativa en Ecuador.

Juan Arellano Valdivia - 27 April, 2022

Global

Open Mapping News from LATAM

2022 seems like a good year for the Latin American OSM community, let's see what new activities are being developed in the countries of the region.

23 March, 2022

Global

Mapeando o Cuidado

A URBELatam, uma parceria de três universidades, está trabalhando com o Banco Preventório para mapear a comunidade do Morro do Preventório próximo ao Rio de Janeiro. O mapa permitirá que o banco amplie seus serviços à comunidade e sirva de modelo e inspiração para outras favelas.

Alessandra Figueiredo, Elena Veríssimo, Samara Franco - 1 February, 2022

Brazil

Mapping the Care of People with URBELatam

URBELatam, a partnership of three universities, is working with the Preventório Community Bank to map the Morro do Preventório community near Rio de Janeiro. This will enable the bank to expand its services to the community and serve as a model and inspiration for other favela communities.

Alessandra Figueiredo, Elena Veríssimo, Samara Franco - 1 February, 2022

Brazil

How does pollution stall productivity? Studying Monrovia's Duala Market

The World Bank, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, and iLab Liberia partnered to assess how pollution and lack of infrastructure was impeding the productivity of the Duala Market, Monrovia's largest wholesale market.

Jess Beutler, Benjamin Dills, Carter Draper, Soraya Goga, Swati Sachdeva - 27 January, 2022

Liberia

Reaching Inaccessible Communities Through Road Mapping for Sustainable Development

Since 2017, HOT has partnered with Facebook to build up and improve the data in OSM, particularly for countries in Southeast Asia where HOT has extensive experience in generating open geodata for humanitarian actions.

Carter Draper, Dinar Adiatma, Tonny John Kanyenye - 25 October, 2021

Global

HOT-MERL is Monitoring OSM and Tasking Manager Projects Across our Priority Countries

HeiGIT and HOT have partnered to extend the Humanitarian OSM Stats website to help relay mapping statistics to the public. It includes data, not only from HOT Tasking Manager projects, but also from all the other OSM contributors.

Benjamin Herfort - 18 October, 2021

Global

The Language Localization Project: Enabling Inclusion and Participation

Together with the local communities and contributors from Vietnam, Madagascar, and Mozambique, as well as the Open Mapping Hubs in the Asia-Pacific and East & Southern Africa, the Localization Project aims to develop baseline data to inform a self-sustainable Localization Strategy. We aim to bridge the gap between language and accessibility of Humanitarian Open Mapping resources.

Arnalie Vicario, Rubén Martín, Dolly Andriatsiferana, Faneva Andriamiadantsoa, Vũ Phạm Minh Tuấn, Huy Nguyen, Rodolfo Pedro, Pechiçoane Pechiço, Dinércia Macaringue, Daniel Mapsanganhe, Emerson Lopes, Rosário Mulhui, Vânia Muianga, Edmilson Fuel, Geoffrey Kateregga, Mikko Tamura - 14 October, 2021

Vietnam, Madagascar, Mozambique

Launching: She Leads and She Inspires - Women in Leadership Program

“I raise up my voice - not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when...

Awantika Pal - 12 October, 2021

Global