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Activation in Somalia
HOT has activated to improve OSM, for the drought and famine crisis in East Africa. Read on for the background, the actions we're taking,...
Keren OSM (Bantaeng and Kupang, Indonesia)
Over the past several weeks a pair of HOT teams has been bouncing around Indonesia, teaching community facilitators from ACCESS about OpenStreetMap and discussing...
Continuing HOT Activation for the Ivory Coast
HOT activated in December of 2010 for the Ivory Coast following the Presidential Election crisis. During that time the OpenStreetMap information collected has been...
Japan earthquake and tsunami
OpenStreetMap used as a basemap for live disaster reports We've all been too busy for blogging lately, but the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is of...
Introducing COSMHA
A new organization has been formed to sustain, support, and grow the local OpenStreetMap Community in Haiti. COSMHA, or Comunite OpenStreetMap de Haiti, was formed...
Ivory Coast post electoral crisis
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) activated as political tension increased dramatically in Ivory Coast in the aftermath of the presidential election this late December...
Fourth deploy of the HOT to Haiti: camp mapping project with IOM
It has been one week since Kate and I came back from Haiti where HOT deployed to grow OSM capacities within the Communication Unit...
Pakistan floods
In July Pakistan was hit by massive flooding. Monsoon rainfall continues to feed the floods and the flood itself has killed tens of thousands...
Third Deploy to Haiti of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team 14-29 June
Following 2 weeks of intense preparation, Kate Chapman and myself just got landed in Haiti to run the third deploy of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap...
Mission 2: report on field trips to Jacmel and Leogane
First Stop: Jacmel On May 19th we departed Port Au Prince enroute for the town of Jacmel. The trip took us 100 km south...
May Mid-Mission to Haiti Report From Nicolas and Dane
Our second week here in Haiti is off to a fast start, and we look forward to sending a more detailed report upon its...
Mission 1: recap from third week conducting outreach and training on OSM in Haiti by Nicolas
Back to base (Brittany, France) at the end of the third week of this OSM/HOT mission in Haiti of which you'll find the main...
Mission 1: recap of the second week conducting training and outreach on OpenStreetMap in Haiti by Robert
Earlier this week I arrived back in Washington, DC after a two week stay in Port-au-Prince with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team where I conducted...
Mission 1: recap of the first week conducting training and outreach on OpenStreetMap in Haiti by Robert and Nicolas
The training and outreach around OpenStreetMap that Nicolas and I are doing in Haiti as part of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (aka HOT) is...