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Boosting Spatial Data Awareness and Participation, HOT Indonesia Hosts OSMGeoWeek Talkshow
November 13th–19th is celebrated annually as Geography Awareness Week. Also known as OSMGeoWeek, it aims to foster awareness in geography, spatial data and its usage...
Ramani Huria Closing Workshop: Reflection & New Direction
November 7th & 8th marked the beginning of a new era for Ramani Huria - a project that over the past year has brought...
Analyzing OpenStreetMap for the fight against malaria
The fight against malaria with OpenStreetMap (OSM) gets a boost today. HOT won a grant from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative funded by the...
Collaborating with University Students, HOT Hosts a Mapathon at the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember in Surabaya
Data infrastruktur vital yang tidak lengkap, tidak mutakhir dan tidak terorganisir secara sistematis menjadi salah satu hambatan besar dalam upaya penciptaan rencana kontinjensi kebencanaan....
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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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’...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Using Financial Services data in OSM: GIS Poster and Mobile apps
Geospatial data lies at the basis of large portions of web and mobile applications, but sometimes tends to be undervalued and is often not...
