GISCorps volunteers are ready to respond when disaster strikes. Operating under the auspices of URISA, GISCorps coordinates short-term, volunteer based services to underprivileged communities. GISCorps volunteers are skilled in GIS technology, desktop and cloud mapping, remote sensing database development and GIS analysis GISCorps has completed over 260 missions in 80 countries.
More than 2,800 volunteers representing 93 countries have participated in these missions, contributing over 84,000 hours. Crowdsourcing missions focus volunteer skills to fill data gaps and create situational awareness in times of crisis. Our volunteers provide mapping expertise to assist those in need worldwide
Volunteers help 4-H with visualization of spatial data
4‑H (Heard, Heart, Hands and Health) is America’s largest youth development organization—empowering nearly six million young people with the skills to lead for a lifetime. 4‑H is delivered by Cooperative Extension—a community of more than 100 public universities across the nation that provides experiences where young people learn by doing. For more than 100 years,…
Volunteers Assisting Tanzania Development Trust
Crowd2Map Tanzania (https://crowd2map.org/) is a crowdsourced volunteer-based mapping project set up by Tanzania Development Trust (TDT) (http://tanzdevtrust.org/), a volunteer-run UK charity established in 1975 to help grassroots projects in rural Tanzania. Crowd2Map aims to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, they have been adding schools, hospitals, roads, buildings and villages to OpenStreetMap (OSM),…
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Our volunteers use a variety of commercial and open-source technology including Esri, MapInfo, ENVI, ERDAS, QGIS, and JOSM.