Overview The PhotoMappers project is in its ninth year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers through crowdsourced photo geolocation during disasters. As in past years, PhotoMappers continues to be a collaboration between GISCorps, NAPSG Foundation,…
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.…
Overview Back for a seventh year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers, the PhotoMappers team got an early start to 2023 when a series of atmospheric rivers swamped most of California and a deadly tornado…
The Surfrider Foundation of San Clemente, CA, USA, is dedicated to the protection and enjoyment of the world’s ocean, waves and beaches, for all people, through a powerful activist network. Their irreplaceable national network of chapter volunteers serves as the…
Overview Now in its sixth year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers, the PhotoMappers team is responding to the 2022 hurricane season. PhotoMappers is an ongoing partnership between NAPSG Foundation, CEDR Digital Corps, and GISCorps;…
Trevor’s Trek Foundation (TTF) is a non-profit organization committed to help facilitate research into the causes of childhood cancer and to develop the means to eradicate those causes. Signed into law in 2016, Trevor’s Law (attached to the Frank R.…
The Crowd2map Project aims to help prevent female genital mutilation (FGM) in Tanzania by mapping the locations of rural villages and settlements where this commonly occurs. Rescue teams often get notified about FGM taking place at night with only hours…
Overview Now in its fifth year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers, the PhotoMappers team is responding to the 2021 hurricane season. PhotoMappers is an ongoing partnership between NAPSG Foundation, CEDR Digital Corps, and GISCorps;…
Stories of Loss Several years ago, Esri started a “Celebrating Lost Loved Ones” application to pay tribute to those lost to the opioid epidemic. Now, as countless lives are being lost to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the idea…
In America: Remember, an art installation created by Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg resulted in planting over 700,000 white flags - each honoring an American who has died from COVID-19. Thousands visited this immense field of flags on the National Mall, in…