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LearnOSM Updates
Recently we've made some improvements to LearnOSM, HOT's resource for learning to use OpenStreetMap from the ground up. It's not always easy keeping up...
Peace Corps + OpenStreetMap
The Peace Corps and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team have been collaborating for over a year. To me its a natural connection. Peace Corps Volunteers (known...
Activation HOT en République centrafricaine : état de la progression
Merci à tous les contribueurs qui ont aidé à cartographier Bangui et Zemio la semaine dernière ! J'ai effectué une revue de l'état de la progression...
Some editing stats from the Typhoon Haiyan response
On Friday I presented a talk at the Open Data Institute on "Typhoon Crisis Mapping With OpenStreetMap". You can see the slides and notes...
HOT Monitoring for the current Crisis in South Sudan
South Sudan is currently a top humanitarian focus if we consider the number of publications over the week on ReliefWeb. Since violence increased in...
Imagery for Haiyan
OpenStreetMap began with people walking, biking, and driving around their neighborhoods, surveying data using GPS to map. Starting in 2007, satellite imagery became available...
OpenStreetMap and Yolanda: A Report from Manila
I spent four days this week in Manila with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery unit of the World Bank. The impetus...
HOT Mapping party at #ICCM in Nairobi
Severin Menard and I are in Nairobi for the International Conference of Crisis Mappers. We decided to host an afternoon mapping party with the...
Réponse d'OpenStreetMap au Typhon Haiyan / Yolanda
Le super-typhon Haiyan aux Philippines est le plus fort jamais enregistré. Nous supportons la communauté OpenStreetMap des Philippines. Au cours de la première semaine...
Remote HOT Activation in the Philippines for Typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan
The Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team (HOT) has activated to provide geographic base data in areas affected by typhoon Yolanda/Haiyan in the Philippines. Currently we are...
Open Cities Dhaka Kicks Off
This week the Open Cities Dhaka Project begins. The project is supported by the World Bank and involves the collection and open dissemination of...
OpenStreetMap Sri Lanka
Fort du soutien financier et opérationnel de la Direction de la Francophonie numérique (DFN) de l’Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), HOT avec un...
Espace OSM Francophone in Togo Day+4 - English version
The fourth day of this set up mission of the project Espace OSM Francophone in Togo is coming to its end.With the support of the Direction de la Francophonie Numérique (OIF-DFN) from Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, members of the WoeLab Lomé of Africaine d'Architecture, Amadou Ndong of the project OpenStreetMap Sénégal deployed with me under the banner of HOT, we have been working to set up the OSM project in this country of Western Africa
Espace OSM Francophone au Togo à J+4
Le quatrième jour de cette mission de lancement du projet Espace OSM Francophone au Togo s'achève.Avec le soutien de la Direction de la Francophonie Numérique (OIF-DFN) de l'Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, les membres du WoeLab Lomé de l'Africaine d'Architecture, Amadou Ndong du projet OpenStreetMap Sénégal déployé avec moi sous la bannière de HOT, nous travaillons à l'ancrage du projet OpenStreetMap dans ce pays de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.
European Commission Joint Research Center and OpenStreetMap
Late March, just coming back from Burundi, I have been invited by Guido Lemoine from the Institute for the Protection and Security of the...