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Mapping Arsenic Contamination - Youth Mappers at AUW Bangladesh
*Guest Blog – Paromita Basak, AUW Youth Mappers Bangladesh* Why create a mapping Project on Arsenic? Arsenic poisoning from drinking water in Bangladesh...
OpenStreetMap & QGIS Training for geology students in Bamako, Mali
*Guest Blog – Nathalie Sidibe, OSM Mali* In 2017 HOT received a grant from Nethope to provide devices (smartphones, laptops) to reduce barriers to community...
Building OpenStreetMap Zambia with the help of a HOT Microgrant
*Guest Blog – Trudy Namitala, OSM Zambia* Since 2016, OSM Zambia has embarked on a journey to transform communities in Zambia by introducing...
Ramani Huria: Building Open Tools to Map Drains
Ramani Huria’s goal is resilience: to reduce the human impact of flooding. The most obvious way to do this is to reduce the likelihood...
HOT Microgrant: Mafalala, Mozambique - Mapping history with a focus on the future
*Guest blog: Remigio Chilaule, Mafalala, Mozambique* Mozambique is a developing African country with many riches, and a lot of untapped potential in natural...
Mapping the Thousand Islands in the Face of Climate-Induced Disasters
On October 23, three waterspouts were seen next to each other, sweeping across parts of the Thousand Islands, the northernmost territory of Jakarta. Although...
OSM Puerto Rico Emerges Stronger and Ready to Help Rebuild!
As Hurricane Maria‘s winds and rain battered our home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, among the many thoughts that bounced in my head in those long hours was wondering about the people living in the mountainous regions of the island. The winding roads, heavy foliage, cliffs, bridges and terrain susceptible to landslides could make it the worst place to be in during such a powerful storm. Many small communities on those mountains would become isolated for weeks.
Team in Istanbul conducts training for Small Projects Istanbul
As part of HOT’s mission in Istanbul to grow the OSM community and to provide training to urban refugees to map their communities and...
GrabBike Drivers Support Disaster Managers Identify IDP Camps in Bali
Grab Indonesia, a ride-hailing startup, started an unprecedented initiative in the humanitarian world. Partnering up with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), GrabBike drivers were trained...
Microgrants: Humanitarian mapping of coastal wetlands and fishing livelihoods for resilience to climate change and variability, Colombia.
*Guest blog: Juan F. Blanco-Libreros, Ph.D., Natalia DaSilveira Arruda, M.Sc., and Nixon A. Aristizabal, GIS Spec. Universidad de Antioquia* Rural and urban communities...
Mapping Administrative Boundaries and Evacuation Routes for the Pacific Disaster Center and BNPB's InAWARE Project
The InAWARE mapping project in Jakarta, Indonesia, is in its fifth month, nearing 80% of completion. The project aims to comprehensively map and collect...
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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...
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,...
