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HOT in Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
Sumbawa Island, Indonesia This post is related with Kate's last post about Hot in Indonesia. On June 30th until July 1st, we went to an...
HOT in Indonesia
Soon after HOT got started there was discussion around the idea of pre-mapping before a disaster. Previously there have been meetings and discussions, but...
Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe
On May 28th members of the OpenStreetMap community met with employees of the Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance ("Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz...
Continuing HOT Activation for the Ivory Coast
HOT activated in December of 2010 for the Ivory Coast following the Presidential Election crisis. During that time the OpenStreetMap information collected has been...
Japan earthquake and tsunami
OpenStreetMap used as a basemap for live disaster reports We've all been too busy for blogging lately, but the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team is of...
Haiti OSM Mapping for Japan and Libya
The COSMHA team came in for a training today on aerial imagery tracing and some review of fundamentals. Despite the initial remote Haiti OSM...
An Midday Hour of Mapping on LogBase in Port au Prince
Erica and I have been in Haiti for almost a week. Inspiring and overwhelming, and lots to talk about. But for this moment, just...
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...
