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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...
Haiti mission 3 - Jacmel and Leogane reports
The team left in a convoy formed by two pick-ups from the Shelter Cluster since the World Food Program (WFP) & the UN Logistics...
Haiti mission 3 - Week 1 in Port-au-Prince
As Week 1, Mission 3 wraps up in Port-au-Prince the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team performed a review class on Sunday for anyone previously trained in...
Haiti mission 3 - Training Day with the IOM Community Mobilizers
Today was the first day of training with the community mobilizers from IOM (International Office for Migration). These 25 young Haitians mostly engaged in...
How to improve our work in Haiti? MapMaker and OSM thoughts too by Mikel
This is a question I'm considering a lot "¦ filtered through the brief rushes of reading the amazing crisismappers list, diving into OSM on...
Haiti mission 3 - Training Day with Haitian partners of the project WINNER
Today, Guensmork and myself made our way to Petionville where the office of the Watershed Initiative For National Natural Environmental Resources (WINNER) project is...