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OSM DRC - supporting the Ebola response

On the 8th May 2018, the Ministry of Health announced the 9th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to the...

27 June, 2018

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Data Collection Training in Bamako, Mali

Data collection training in Bamako, Mali

Nathalie Sidibe - 26 June, 2018

Mali

Bringing together West African OSM communities: OSM & GIS workshops in Lomé, Togo

OSM & GIS worshops in Togo in May 2018

Nathalie Sidibe - 26 June, 2018

Mali

Open Cities Africa Kicks off in Kampala

The latest installment of the Open Cities project, Open Cities Africa, from the World Bank kicked off last week in Kampala. We were there...

Paul Uithol, Nate Smith - 22 June, 2018

Uganda, Liberia, Ghana

Growing OSM Zambia through the Nethope Device Challenge Grant

Guest blog: Trudy Hope, OSM Zambia lead

Gertrude (Trudy Hope) Namitala - 22 June, 2018

Zambia

HOT 2018 Annual Meeting and Election Results

HOT Voting Members held their 2018 Annual General Meeting On June 7th, during which we heard an update on the Strategic Plan, and ratified...

Joseph Reeves - 14 June, 2018

Global

A fresh look for hotosm.org

Today we flipped the switch on a new look for hotosm.org. The new design has updated information on projects, new ways of accessing information...

Nate Smith - 12 June, 2018

Global

UniqueMappersTeam Collaboration with Transparent Earth Nigeria Ltd.

Guest blog - Valerie Odeam Osuamkpe (Ag.Team Secretary General,UMT) and Victor N.Sunday (Team Coordinator)

11 June, 2018

Nigeria

Map Completeness Estimation and Experimental Analytics for Health

Over the last couple of years, HOT has been working with partners like the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Botswana Ministry of...

Alyssa Wright - 28 May, 2018

Botswana

HOT Hosted a Mapathon in the State University of Semarang

In April 16-18, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia collaborated with the State University of Semarang (UNNES) to host a mapathon for the capital of...

Biondi Sanda Sima - 18 May, 2018

Indonesia

Agetic Training Success with OSM Mali

OSM Mali run training for Communication Technologies Agency, Agetic Mali

16 May, 2018

Mali

Field surveying in Botswana to support the National Malaria Programme

Although a lot of progress has been made to combat malaria, and yearly deaths worldwide have declined from over 1 million in 2000 to...

Paul Uithol - 16 May, 2018

Botswana

Welcoming summer work on open source tools through Outreachy and Google Summer of Code

Welcome to the new Google Summer of Code and Outreachy students! The HOT Community is getting a significant amount of support this summer on...

Nate Smith - 7 May, 2018

Global

Motorcycle Mapping - BodaBodas and 'The Knowledge'

Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, has Uber taxis. It is crazy. They are highly unreliable, not surprisingly given the traffic behaviour here - which could...

Rupert Allan - 29 April, 2018

Uganda

Engaging with Youth, HOT’s Uni Battle Map Winner Becomes the First YouthMappers Chapter in Indonesia

Youth is a critical partner in carrying out HOT’s mission. We worked together with university students and young people since the very inception of...

Biondi Sanda Sima - 26 April, 2018

Indonesia