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Mongolia - Mapping Ulaanbaatar Update - Welcome Interns!
It is our pleasure to welcome a group of student interns from the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) as stewards for the Mapping Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia project we began in 2013. The project is a collaboration between HOT, the World Bank, nonprofit research group ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) and the city of Ulaanbaatar to create and maintain a map of the city within OpenStreetMap (OSM).
Kathmandu Living Labs is working to respond in Nepal: help them out!
Kathmandu Living Labs is a great local non-profit working to help in the Nepal earthquake response. Learn more about what they're doing with mapping, data, training and coordination, and help them yourself!
Volunteers from around the world help HOT map Nepal
Volunteers from around the world have been helping map Nepal -- here is roundup of some of the great events we have heard about. And tell us your own!
HOT Activates for Nepal Response - Report #2
HOT has been active almost 20 hours since the devastating earthquake in Nepal. Our thoughts are with the affected communities and our fellow Mappers...
Updates from Dar es Salaam
For the past three weeks, the HOT team in Tanzania comprising of Steven Bukulu, Geoffrey Kateregga, Paul Uithol and Jeff Haack has been involved...
Taller de Mapeo Humanitario – Isla de León, Colombia
Para celebrar el Open Data Day, se organizó por parte de TECHO,la Universidad de San Buenaventura (seccional de Cartagena) y con el apoyo de...
HOT Called Upon to Support Disaster Response in Malawi Flooding
The southern parts of Malawi along the Lower Shire River (that connects Lake Malawi and the Zambezi River) are frequently flooded, and that flooding affects the villages of farmers near the river. Since mid January 2015, they have been hit critically. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) was involved in a community mapping and training project in Malawi last year and has been requested to provide baseline data of the affected areas.
First official Missing Maps field mapping
Already for a big week now, Pete Masters and I have been in Bangladesh for the first official field mapping of the Missing Maps...
Announcing the Missing Maps Project
I'm delighted to announce that this week HOT, in conjunction with American Red Cross, British Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders UK are...
Interview on BBC World News
Last week we had a television interview, with me appearing alongside Andrew Braye from the British Red Cross, and with Pierre Béland joining us...
Updates from Indonesia
Back in 2011, the first time I joined HOT as an intern for Community Mapping Pilot (Phase I), I never expect anything big or...
GeONG Conference - West Africa Ebola Outbreak - Six months of sustained efforts by the OpenStreetMap community
This two days CartONG 4th Forum of Geographic Information for Relief and Development GeOnG event in Chambéry (France), September 22-23, was the opportunity for...
Fieldwork in Nsanje District (Weeks 6 - 7)
"Maswela bwanji?" (Good afternoon) "Ndasewela bwino, kaya inu?" (The afternoon is fine, what about you?) "Ndasewela bwino." (The afternoon is fine) "Zikomo." (Thank you)...
Fieldwork in the heart of Shire (Week 5)
It is the second, and last week, of fieldwork in the Chikwawa district, with the necessity to cover all the most flood prone areas...
Fieldwork begins in the Lower Shire (Week 4)
After 3 weeks of coordination, preparation and training, we begin the field mapping exercise this week. Everyone is excited with the upcoming exercise. Armed...
