GISCorps Volunteers Respond to Crisis in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew On 4 October 2016, Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 hurricane, came ashore on the western half of Haiti, causing extensive flooding, mudslides, and damage to roads, houses, and the water…
Volunteers assist DHN in Burundi The request for volunteers came from DHN. This project was originally intended to improve the quality of hospital and school data within the country of Burundi to support the United Nations Office for Coordination of…
Volunteer assisting in data conversion and interactive map development Ken Breaux, Founder of MIA Recovery Network MIA Recovery Network, a 501(c)(3) organization, requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers with Esri (ArcGIS Online & ArcGIS Desktop) expertise in the development of…
GISCorps volunteer conducts spatial analysis post Sri Lanka floods GISCorps Volunteer: Denis Krivoguz, Teaching assistant in Kerch State Maritime Technological University Blake Girardot, President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) On 15 May 2016 Sri Lanka was hit by a…
Volunteers digitizing in OSM for flood in Sri Lanka Since the beginning of the week of May 15th, large areas of Sri Lanka have been deluged by torrential rains caused by a slow moving tropical depression in the Bay of…
Engineering students at the University of California, Berkeley, in cooperation with the Engineers Without Borders USA Group, worked with local groups in El Valle de San Francisco, Panama, to design a water distribution system to bring fresh running water to…
GISCorps’ Geocoding Project - Niger In support of the UNOCHA initiative to upgrade Common Operational Datasets, The University of Georgia/ITOS requested support from the GISCorps to geocode the locations of populated places in Niger. The task was to take the name of…
GISCorps volunteers assist in Ecuador Earthquake relief activities In April 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake claimed the lives of over 650 people in north western Ecuador. Shortly after the quake, GISCorps was contacted by the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) to…
Crowdsource project documents coastal changes due to Hurricane Joaquin Nine GISCorps volunteers assisted with the USGS iCoast project after Hurricane Joaquin and a related Nor’easter caused extensive damage along the US east coast from South Carolina to New York in…
Afghanistan Earthquake GISCorps Response A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Afghanistan on October 26, 2015. Within hours the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) activated an online work project to support the local OpenStreetMap (OSM) community by digitizing features from existing imagery. In the…