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HOT Activates for Nepal Response - Report #2
HOT has been active almost 20 hours since the devastating earthquake in Nepal. Our thoughts are with the affected communities and our fellow Mappers...
Strong Earthquake in Nepal - HOT Activates! Report #1
We are sad to report that there has been a major earthquake in Nepal. The best place to get information about HOT's response is...
Updates from Dar es Salaam
For the past three weeks, the HOT team in Tanzania comprising of Steven Bukulu, Geoffrey Kateregga, Paul Uithol and Jeff Haack has been involved...
HOT says Farewell to our Kate
Kate Chapman. Leader, friend, mentor, creator, grant writer, smart girl, cool-chick, adventurer, founder, volunteer. These are many of the wonderful traits that make up...
OSM TANZANIA
Preparations, Preparations and Lots of Preparations is how best i can describe the third of the OSM Training in Tanzania. We reported at...
OSM TANZANIA
On many occasions i used to wonder how birds feel when they fly above us, maybe or maybe not it could be one of...
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team seeks Interim Executive Director
HOT has grown from a community of contributors with an idea to a global community and organization with many successes. HOT has some exciting...
Mapping Vanuatu Islands
The Cyclone has come and gone from Vanuatu Islands. The devastation is massive with the BBC reporting that Development has been wiped out. In...
Taller de Mapeo Humanitario – Isla de León, Colombia
Para celebrar el Open Data Day, se organizó por parte de TECHO,la Universidad de San Buenaventura (seccional de Cartagena) y con el apoyo de...
HOT Called Upon to Support Disaster Response in Malawi Flooding
The southern parts of Malawi along the Lower Shire River (that connects Lake Malawi and the Zambezi River) are frequently flooded, and that flooding affects the villages of farmers near the river. Since mid January 2015, they have been hit critically. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) was involved in a community mapping and training project in Malawi last year and has been requested to provide baseline data of the affected areas.
Updates from the OpenAerialMap Project
Aerial imagery today is available from a variety of sources including traditional satellites, nano satellites, manned and unmanned aircrafts, mapping drones, balloons and kites....
Welcome New Members!
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is pleased to announce the election of twenty-five (25) new voting members to our organization. They are an amazing group...
First official Missing Maps field mapping!
Already for a big week now, Pete Masters and I have been in Bangladesh for the first official field mapping of the Missing Maps...
People we can count on: Thank you again Lokku!
As a small non-profit taking on a very big job, HOT relies on a lot of people to help us accomplish our mission of...
Cristiano Giovando Joins HOT to Lead OpenAerialMap Efforts
I’m delighted to announce that Cristiano Giovando has joined the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to lead HOT’s efforts to restart OpenAerialMap (OAM). Cristiano conceptualized...
