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Mapping Bicycle Routes During Dar es Salaam's Cycle Caravan.

Each year, 5th June marks World Environment Day, a day for raising global awareness to take positive environmental action to protect nature and the...

Innocent Maholi - 14 June, 2016

Tanzania

Call for Proposals - HOT Summit 2016

We invite you to submit a proposal to present a topic of interest at The Second Annual HOT Summit 2016 to be held in Brussels, Thursday, September 22nd at the BTC Conference Center - Espace Jacqmotte the day before State of the Map-International. This year's theme is OpenStreetMap, the Global HOT Community, and Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Cheryl Shaw - 13 June, 2016

Global

HOT and YouthMappers Collaborate to Develop HOT University Clubs

The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and YouthMappers share a common vision around engaging young people interested in the use of spatial data for humanitarian response and development. YouthMappers and HOT have already collaborated in many ways, including through use of HOT’s Tasking Manager, which is the platform used for collaborating in groups around mapping projects.

Cheryl Shaw - 13 June, 2016

Global

Ecuador Earthquake: Assessing the Extent of Damaged Buildings

Efforts are still going strong 7 weeks after the initial earthquake struck Ecuador on the 16th April close to the towns of Muisne and Pedernales, with HOT transitioning from the 1st stage of mapping focused on pre-event data to the 2nd stage, a pilot project aimed at mapping building damage and temporary shelters.

Mhairi O'Hara - 3 June, 2016

Ecuador

HOTOSM recognized by the President of Mexico during Internet Day 2016

(Welcome and thank you Miriam Gonzalez for this guest post, sharing recognition by the President of Mexico of HOT during Hurricane Patricia! -Mikel) On "Internet Day",...

Mikel Maron - 31 May, 2016

Mexico

New project: “Real Time Financial Location Planning and Research”

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) announces it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. HOT will pursue an innovative global health and development research project, titled “Real Time Financial Location Planning and Research”.

Paul Uithol - 27 May, 2016

Uganda

New Documentation and Design System for OpenAerialMap

We've just rolled out the start of a new documentation and design system for OpenAerialMap. Four main components make up the OAM ecosystem: an...

Nate Smith - 25 May, 2016

Global

HOT at the World Humanitarian Summit

From May 22-25, six HOT board members, staff, and volunteers will participate in the first ever World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. The World Humanitarian...

Tyler Radford - 20 May, 2016

Global

Mini-Mapathon for Sri Lanka Floods at Understanding Risk

It is morning in Venice, Italy. We are having a mini-mapathon in support of the Sri Lanka Flood actiation live from the Understanding Risk...

Heather Leson - 20 May, 2016

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka Floods Activation: Sitrep Day 1

Hi all, ~24 hours ago HOT activated in support of the Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka. We were requested to generate building information...

Blake Girardot - 20 May, 2016

Sri Lanka

HOT SUMMIT 2016 - Registration Open

Brussels - Registration is now open for the Second Annual HOT Summit 2016 to be held in Brussels, Thursday, September 22nd at the BTC Conference...

Cheryl Shaw - 17 May, 2016

Global

Mapping the Tien Shan mountains

Capacity building around OpenStreetMap. Supporting teachers and high school children in rural villages in Kyrgyzstan to build their maps for Citizen Science.

Felix Delattre - 10 May, 2016

Kyrgyzstan

HOT Annual Meeting and Election Results

HOT Voting Members held their Annual General Meeting today, where we heard annual reports from HOT’s Executive Director, Board President, and Members Chair, and...

Mikel Maron - 5 May, 2016

Global

Ecuador Earthquake: Day 16 Update

We want to highlight the amazing work done to date by the wonderful volunteers mappers of OpenStreetMap, with 2,300 individuals making close to 3 million map changes with the associated #MappingEcuador changeset comment.

Mhairi O'Hara - 4 May, 2016

Ecuador

Explore How the World is Mapped with OSM Analytics

Today we are launching OSM Analytics, a platform for exploring and analyzing OpenStreetMap data. With the current database growing to almost 50 gigabytes, and thousands of features added every day, OSM is officially entering the big data league.

Cristiano Giovando - 28 April, 2016

Global