News
End of the Outreachy Program Round 10
Round 10 of the Outreachy program has come to an end! Running for three months, from the 25th May till the 25th of August,...
Community Mapping can greatly contribute to the development of Dar es Salaam
Mr. Monday Anthony, a 66 year old community member of Mchikichini ward in Ilala District who participated in Community Mapping for Flood Resilience, talked to Mr. Steven Bukulu a Mapping Supervisor and Media Specialist of Ramani Huria about the main reasons for floods occurring in many areas in Dar es Salaam, in particular Mchikichini.
Small UAS for Humanitarian Mapping
Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS), also known as drones or UAVs, are revolutionizing the way we do remote sensing and aerial imaging. With less...
Ramani Huria community mapping showcased to Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete
La quatrième conférence annuelle nationale Tanzanienne des sciences, des technologies et de l'innovation s'est déroulée à Dar es Salaam du 17 au 19 juin 2015. La conférence a permis une présentation de la cartographie communautaire Ramani Huria de Dar es Salaam au President de la république de Tanzanie, Jakaya Kikwete.
#HOTSummit Videos are Live!
Les Vidéo du #hotsummit sont disponibles ! Merci à tous nos volontaires et partenaires ainsi qu'à la croix rouge anglaise pour ce travail de...
OAM Adds Dynamic Filtering, Upload Tools Coming Soon
During the recent Nepal earthquakes, digital humanitarians were suddenly flooded with data, a lot of data, especially aerial imagery collected with satellites and small...
Pilot Workshops - HOT Activation Curriculum
HOT has been developing an 'Activation' training curriculum over the last several months in order to build and improve the skills of it's 'Activators'....
"Ramani Huria" Scale Up - Dar es Salaam, 6th July, 2015
The "Dar Ramani Huria" Scale Up Workshop took place at Nkrumah Hall, University of Dar es Salaam, on Monday 6th of July. Over the...
Nepal Earthquake: A note of thanks to HOT’s aerial imagery providers
Aerial imagery is key to the work that HOT undertakes each day of the year. During a crisis, the need becomes even more...
HOT Leadership 2015
This year has presented many challenges to HOT. We have been incredibly active and successful in all of our programs: Disaster Mapping, Community Building and Technical Projects. However, as many of you know, 2015 has been a year of tremendous change in HOT leadership.
Mapping Ulaanbaatar with Asia Foundation
Recently we had a very pleasant surprise to be contacted by Nicholas Doiron, who Project Coordinator, Severin Menard, knew from previous work including in Haiti. Nick, now working with Asia Foundation alongside Michelle Chang, knew about the HOT Mapping Ulaanbaatar project and reached out for advice as the Asia Foundation planned an OpenStreetMap Mapathon competition.
Be the Executive Director of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Passionate about maps, humanitarian response and global community? Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) seeks an Executive Director to dream big building on our successes...
+(1).png){kind=logo}
TomTom June 2015 HOT Mapathon
HOT a récemment assisté la société TomTom à l'organisation d'un Mapathon focalisé sur la cartographie du Nepal. Des batiments, des zones résidentielles, des routes,...
Case study: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Implementation of a collaborative, crowd-sourced Geographic Information System for humanitarian aid and economic development. Recently I became an official member of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team...
The New Field Papers Site is Live!
The new Field Papers site has been live for over a week now, as it was successfully launched on the 28th of May. Thanks to the team at Stamen Design in conjunction with co-funding from the Hewlett Foundation through the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, the tool has been re-vamped to become stable and more international. Field Papers has been optimised for multiple languages, which include but are not limited to Deutsch, Español, Français, Bahasa Indonesia, Italiano, 日本語, کوردی, Nederlands, Português, and Kiswahili. Please contribute towards the internationalisation and translation of Field Papers by visiting the Transifex project and joining the team of your desired language.
