From June 15th until July 29th 2018, William Ouellette, Senior GIS Engineer at TomTom BV in Gent, Belgium, was deployed to an on site mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). The request for a volunteer came from WWF (World…
In early July, parts of Western Japan were devastated by a series of disasters caused by torrential rain, including landslides and severe flooding. One area hit particularly hard was the town of Mabi in Okayama prefecture, where flood waters as…
On August 9-12, 2018, 218 volunteers from 46 countries participated in a Mapathon to map structures in a focused area within 15 kilometers of the Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia borders. This Cross Border area has been identified as being at…
Summary On July 20-22, 2018, five volunteers participated in validating settlement names and locations within 15 kilometers of the Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia borders. This Cross Border area has been identified as being at high-risk for polio outbreaks and the…
Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) helps the 25 school districts in the state’s largest county meet the needs of all learners, by providing support to districts, educators and students. Services include professional development for educators, educator certification, business support…
This project was initiated by Grand Staircase Escalante Partners (GSEP) and Puente Institute as an effort to collect data from the public on observations and disturbances within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The collected data will then be used for formulating…
Over the weekend of 08-March-2018, 309 volunteers from around the world participated in a Mapathon to map structures in Tanganyika Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in support of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The event was hosted…
Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project set up by Tanzania Development Trust, a volunteer-run UK charity set up in 1975 to help grassroots projects in rural Tanzania. Crowd2Map aims to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, they…
Cyclone Gita recently impacted areas of the South Pacific including New Zealand with hurricane-force winds and rain. The NZ GIS for Emergency Management Community (NZGIS4EM: https://community.esri.com/groups/nzgis4em) requested assistance from GISCorps volunteers in crowdsourcing damage photos for an online situational awareness map. Eleven GISCorps…
Transforming a website story to an interactive Story Map WWF is one of the leading organizations working on conservation globally. Kafue Flats is one of the designated RAMSA sites in the Zambezi River Basin. The Kafue Flats, covering an area…