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HOT at Haiti Communitere
Since returning to Haiti in preparation of launching the Saint Marc mapping program with COSMHA, HOT has been staying at the Haiti Communitere (HC) Resourse Center. HC offers an open space, where organizations of many type are able to come to launch project within Haiti. They are very valuable to organizations such as HOT because they allow us to arrive and use this incredibly flexible support environment to get things started or in country.
A return to Haiti two years on
It is January 12th, 2012, 2 years after the quake, that I started my eighth trip to Haiti where HOT will partner with the...
HOT Collaboration with GIS Corps!
GIS Corps is joining together with HOT again for a joint project. The first collaboration between HOT and GIS Corps occurred during the Samoa...
Christmas donation from nestoria
Nestoria have given a very generous donation to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team In a blog post CEO Ed Freyfogle explains: "...rather than sending our...
Schuyler Erle and John Crowley join the board
We'd like to welcome two new members to the board of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team: Schuyler Erle - Long time pioneer of open Source...
Activation to Map Libyan Health Facilities
The World Health Organization (WHO) has asked HOT and the Stand By Task Force (SBTF) to activate to map health facilities in in Libya....
Cooperation between HOT and DigitalGlobe in Turkey
We almost forgot to report on our earthquake response in Turkey from this October. Fortunately Suha Ulgen recently did an interview that reminded...
OpenStreetMap and Quantum GIS Training in Bali
On 5th "“ 6th December 2011, HOT came to Bali for another training. Here we were working with Australian Community Development and Civil Society...
Poverty Mapping with an OpenStreetMap Base in Sumbawa
During HOT's time working in Indonesia we've met with many different groups doing different types of mapping. One of the more common types is...
Meetings, Conferences and Coordination in Geneva
2 weeks ago Nicolas Chavent and I spent the week in Geneva. The initial impetus for the trip was the 3rd annual International Conference...
The Amazing OSM Community, and the Tasking Server, Maps Swaziland
One month ago, I asked what to do with 10 million GPS points, and it turns out one awesome answer is map an entire...
7 Indonesian Students goes to Denver for SotM and FOSS4G!
We hope you guys still remember about our project in Indonesia. There was a mapping competition happen during the project and the winner was announced...
HOT Tasks! Get Your HOT Tasks!
A couple weeks ago Patrick Meier wrote about HOT's new tool for tasking, the OpenStreetMap Tasking Manager. Now it has finally moved to its permanent home:tasks.hotosm.org
Meeting face-to-face at SOTM Denver
Many members of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team have managed to come together in Denver for the State Of The Map. Things are always a...
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,...
End of an Era or at Least Internship
Friday marked the end of Va and Emir's internship with HOT this summer. We were fortunate to have rockstar interns for this project. You...