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OpenStreetMap Training of Trainers in the Philippines
OpenStreetMap (OSM) trainers or facilitators are one of the essential thing to help make OSM communities and programs sustainable. People or communities would like...
DISPATCH: IEEE Humanitarian Technology Conference
A few weeks ago HOT was a guest of the 2014 IEEE Canada International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC). In the session, Samual Paul...
London HOT Congo Mapathon
What happens when you bring together people from Médecins Sans Frontières, with some people who are experienced OpenStreetMappers, and a bunch of people who...
The Roles of Experts and the Public - Report Back from Commons Lab Event
HOT and our community are increasingly considered global response leaders. Our perspective and expertise provides a unique bridge between the OSM community and traditional...
CAR Activation, Year 2
Cela fait maintenant plus d'un an que l'Activation pour la République centrafricaine a débuté. Cela fait aussi déjà trois mois depuis que j'ai publié...
Mapping on in Haiphong
Back in October 2013 I headed to Haiphong for three weeks in conjunction with the World Bank to map transit infrastructure in the city....
When Birds of a Feather Map Together
All spring we’ve been thinking about how to grow and support the HOT community. We know that we need to improve support to keep...
Community Growth in Indonesia - Creating Trainers
Back when HOT started in Indonesia none of us was sure how the growth of OpenStreetMap would happen. As it stands today we've trained...
2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response, Second update
Our mapping response in West Africa due to the Ebola epidemic there continues. The Bing high-res imagery is the main source for tracing the...
State of the Map US in DC!
This weekend is State of the Map US (SOTMUS) which is being held in Washington DC this year. I'm excited to attend this SOTMUS, at...
"Back" at the OpenGov Hub
I reason I say "back" in quotes because since the last time I was at HOT's office in Washington D.C. 7 months ago it was in a completely different building. HOT is part of the OpenGov Hub which is a coworking place and center for open government related organizations in the Washington, DC area. We are part of the "mapping area" in conjunction with Ushahidi and the GroundTruth Initiative. The new OpenGov Hub space just opened on April 1st of this year. This is one of HOT's two permanent spaces the other we share with Wikimedia Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia.
A week in Lubumbashi (DRC)
Lundi 17 mars 2014 après-midi : je monte dans un avion en direction de Lubumbashi, dans le sud de la République Démocratique du Congo...
2014 West Africa Ebola Outbreak Response
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team was asked to coordinate for the OpenStreetMap contributors to support the humanitarians by mapping in detail various towns where they...
Réponse à la crise d'Ébola, Afrique de l'Ouest, 2014
L'équipe OpenStreetMap humanitaire agit à titre de contact entre la communauté d'OpenStreetMap et les humanitaires pour cartographier en détail les différentes villes où les...
Mapping Guinea: Help Wanted
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Switzerland rapidly needs maps of three towns in order to support their relief efforts of an ebola-like outbreak in Guinea....