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…
Mapping Tool Showcases Research on Incidents in the Uyghur Homeland By Greg Fay The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released an online webmap highlighting research from “Legitimizing Repression: China’s “War on Terror” Under Xi Jinping and State Policy in East Turkestan.” Based on…
Volunteers digitized features after Hurricane Patricia Hurricane Patricia was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere in terms of barometric pressure and sustained winds. Patricia also grew faster than any Western Hemisphere storm on record, growing from a…