News
2015 in Review: HOT's Annual Report
HOT's 2015 Annual Report is now online! The report and projects described within have been possible because of the commitment and dedication of HOT's global community and partner organizations. A special thanks to the dozens of HOT board members, staff, and volunteers who contributed to producing HOT's first comprehensive annual report.
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...
HOT Joins the Group on Earth Observations
In July, HOT was voted in as a participating organization of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Forums like GEO that emphasize sharing of free and open Earth observation data are critical to evolve the methods and standards to make data and information more accessible. GEO is building the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) to connect the world's environmental and socio-economic data sources. Membership in the global data-sharing body brings opportunities for HOT to contribute to use of Earth observation data and information for better decision-making.
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...
Ramani Huria: Street View Mapping for Tanzania's Largest City
Often when you think of maps, many people imagine only a view from above. Street view imagery allows maps to have an additional dimension,...
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.
New Features for OpenAerialMap
OpenAerialMap is focused on creating a simple and easy experience for finding and publishing aerial imagery. This past week, we released three new features...
Introducing the Mapillary Humanitarian Mapping Kit, in Partnership with HOT
Guest post by Sandra Uddbäck, team member at Mapillary. Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) does amazing work in building and supporting local mapping communities around...
HOT Launches New PacDID Drone Imagery Project
Earlier this month HOT launched the new Pacific Drone Imagery Dashboard (PacDID) project to support aerial imagery use in Pacific island communities. In places...
The White House Mapathon and HOT Team Up to Fight Malaria
On Thursday, July 7, HOT will join the White House Mapathon to celebrate the role of open mapping in the achievement of the Sustainable...
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...
HOT's Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals, and How You Can Help
When I speak with HOT staff and volunteers in our community, I often ask what they've heard about the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs for short. Sometimes, people have heard of the term, or know that the term is somehow related to the United Nations. I often chat about the types of mapping projects they're working on. In the past month, the answers have been incredibly varied: HOT staff are mapping safe bicycle routes and access to sanitation (public toilets) in Tanzania; banks, ATMs, and mobile money agent locations in Uganda, and are about to start mapping critical disaster "lifeline" infrastructure in two of the biggest cities in Indonesia. In addition, HOT volunteer leaders are working on dozens more projects throughout the world across sectors: education, environment, health, transportation, water and sanitation. These projects are all taking place in challenging contexts: megacities in developing countries, refugee camps, and unplanned urban and rural housing settlements.So what does this have to do with the SDGs?
