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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...
HOT inspires mapping communities in Uganda
The last time that HOT carried out mapping in Northern Uganda was on August 20 2012, teaming up with the American and Ugandan Red...
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...
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.
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",...
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”.
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.
