GISCorps helped build a new tool to improve access to vital information in emergency response The map filter project is a new technique being developed to help decision makers find the right information at the right time during emergency response. More…
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…
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…
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…
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…
GISCorps volunteer develops Vulnerability Indices Web Map - Nepal By: Brian Baldwin In the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake, getting access to information relevant to humanitarian programming has been a big problem. Baseline data are key to humanitarian response both…
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap’s Map4Nepal Project Forty-six GISCorps volunteers from 10 countries responded to the call for volunteers to the Nepal Earthquake in 2015 and digitized various features on OpenStreetMap shortly after the quake hit. In total volunteers logged over 440 hours…