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Tufts Crisis Mapping Class
The Tufts University Crisis Mapping Class is surveying the tools, ideas, and networks in new approaches to crisis response. There was a class on...
Please join! HOT conference call, February 16 12pm EST
Hello all, It's been an amazing year for OpenStreetMap and the H.O.T. community. We've supported humanitarian efforts and built capacities on every continent. Starting...
A Big Thank You to a Few of Our Supporters
As an organization, HOT is almost 100% bootstrapped. We are volunteer driven with most of our costs being project related and paid for by...
The new HOT logo
It is my pleasure to present the new Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team logo: Throughout December we held a logo design competition, inviting the community to...
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...
HOT's Proposal for the Knight News Challenge
Since March HOT has been holding trainings in Haiti on how to contribute to OpenStreetMap. We've travel to many of the earthquake effected areas...
Maps for Mozambique
This post has simultaneously published at the Spanish Spatial Data Infrastructures blog Last week was a small adventure. I went to Mozambique to make...
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 SPOT imagery coverage extended
The coverage of the SPOT imagery has recently been shifted and much extended, to cover a great deal more of the flood affected area...
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...
HOT Mission 4 to Haiti
Information Kiosk (image courtesy Leonard Doyle) Nicolas and I are back down in Haiti until the end of August. There was just as much...
HOT thoughts by Trevor
Membership on the HOT team is quite the trying experience. There are always long days of work with early mornings and late nights. It's...
Haiti mission 3 - A final mapping party in Carrefour (Port Au Prince) at The Base Navale Amiral Killic and ADRA.
The final day of HOT's third deployment to Haiti was no less busy than all the other days. This training day did in a...
Haiti mission 3 - Training and Mapping Party in Gonaïves
The first actual mapping party of this mission was scheduled for 25-27 June in this town of Northern Haiti. In OpenStreetMap a mapping party...