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Missed the HOT Summit? Watch it online!
Last month (September), more than 150 HOT community members and partners from around the world attended the 2016 HOT Summit in Brussels. The Summit...
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OSM GeoWeek is November 13th-19th: Host a Mapping Event!
November 13th–19th is Geography Awareness Week. Join HOT as we prepare to make the third annual OSM Geography Awareness Week (“OSM GeoWeek”) the best...
Mapping Dar es Salaam's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Facilities
WaSH is a collective term for water, sanitation and hygiene. While each is a separate field of work, they are interdependent in nature. After...
Help Disaster Management in Surabaya by Mapping Remotely
Early this year, major parts of Surabaya were inundated by floods. Occasional event such as this may paralyze economic activities and put its citizens’...
Work for HOT! Open Job Opportunities
HOT welcomes qualified applicants to apply to work with us! There are currently three open positions closing this week and next:Deadline Oct 21: Community Partnerships Manager - Missing MapsDeadline Oct 21: Product Manager - HOT Tasking Manager Re-DesignDeadline Oct 31: System Administrator/DevOps Engineer (Part-time)
Hurricane Matthew Update
Hurricane Matthew as predicted caused catastrophic damage to Haiti that is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. The main damage is located in western...
2015 in Review: HOT's Annual Report
HOT's 2015 Annual Report is now online! The report and projects described within have been possible because of the commitment and dedication of HOT's global community and partner organizations. A special thanks to the dozens of HOT board members, staff, and volunteers who contributed to producing HOT's first comprehensive annual report.
Hurricane Matthew
The Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team (HOT) has activated to provide geographic base data in areas affected by Hurricane Matthew. Category 4 Hurricane Matthew continues to...
HOT Prepares to Map Lifeline Infrastructure in Surabaya
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia continued in taking up its role for the InAWARE (All-hazard Warnings, Analysis, and Risk Evaluation) program. InAWARE is a...
Mapping for Resilience - Karamoja Region, Uganda
(Original composition by Taylor Zevanove, AidData Summer Fellow 2016 with the HOT team in Kampala, Uganda) On July 25th Uganda’s Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team...
HOT Joins the Group on Earth Observations
In July, HOT was voted in as a participating organization of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Forums like GEO that emphasize sharing of free and open Earth observation data are critical to evolve the methods and standards to make data and information more accessible. GEO is building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to connect the world's environmental and socio-economic data sources. Membership in the global data-sharing body brings opportunities for HOT to contribute to use of Earth observation data and information for better decision-making.
Improving Resilience with Aerial Imagery
Earlier this month Nate and I went to Suva to lead the kickoff meeting of the Pacific Drone Imagery Dashboard (PacDID) project funded by...
Ramani Huria: Street View Mapping for Tanzania's Largest City
Often when you think of maps, many people imagine only a view from above. Street view imagery allows maps to have an additional dimension,...
Mapping the Unmapped: A Summer Fellows Foray into the OSM Community
(Written by Cleo Stern, AidData Summer Fellow 2016 with the HOT team in Kampala, Uganda) We hadn’t been in Kampala, let alone Uganda,...
Kickoff of HOT's Participation with the InAWARE Programme
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team’s (HOT) participation in the InAWARE program kicked-off last week with stakeholder workshops in Jakarta and Surabaya, Indonesia. The Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) graciously hosted the event at their headquarters, which was lead by the Pacific Disaster Centre (PDC) and attended by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Disaster Management Innovation (DMI), HOT and various other stakeholders.
