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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...
Haiti mission 3 - Training Day with field workers of the Shelter Cluster organizations
Today was the first of the large scale trainings (25 individuals) of this mission delivered to field workers from the Shelter Cluster in LogBase....
Haiti mission 3 - First day in the UN logistics base in Port Au Prince
Kate and myself spent our first day in meetings to coordinate the activities planned for these 2 weeks with all UN actors in LogBase...
Third Deploy to Haiti of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team 14-29 June
Following 2 weeks of intense preparation, Kate Chapman and myself just got landed in Haiti to run the third deploy of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap...
Mission 2: report on field trips to Jacmel and Leogane
First Stop: Jacmel On May 19th we departed Port Au Prince enroute for the town of Jacmel. The trip took us 100 km south...
